Applications

Abstract

Several months ago John Schacht of Bexley, Ohio, who has been pioneering with flexible geometry models for well over a decade, contacted me and inquired whether I knew of an application of Ceva's Theorem. This theorem was published by Giovanni Ceva at Milan, Italy, in 1678 and may be briefly stated as follows: If three concurrent lines are drawn from the vertices of a triangle to the opposite sides dividing the sides into pairs of segments, the product of three non-adjacent segments is equal to the product of the other three segments.