| Howard Whitley Eves - History - 1983 - 292 pages
...FM, EN. Then FE is parallel to BC and equal to one-half of BC (the line segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and is equal to one-half the third side). Similarly, MN is parallel to BC and is equal to one-half of BC.... | |
| G.E. Martin - Mathematics - 1997 - 536 pages
...quadrilaterals in absolute geometry are contained in Theorem 22.4. • 22.16 The line through the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side. 22.17 Theorem 22.17 could have followed Definition 21.9. Why didn't it? Would this rearrangement have... | |
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