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The Dual of a Theorem relative to the Orthocenter of a Triangle

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.30157

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The Dual of a Theorem relative to the Orthocenter of a Triangle
Professor Ion Patrascu, National College "Buzeşti Brothers" Craiova - Romania
Professor Florentin Smarandache, University of New Mexico, Gallup, USA

In [1] we introduced the notion of Bobillier transversal relative to a point in

the plane of a triangle ; we use this notion in what follows.

We transform by duality with respect to a circle the following theorem

relative to the orthocenter of a triangle.

Theorem 1. If is a nonisosceles triangle, its orthocenter, and

are cevians of a triangle concurrent at point different from ,
and are the intersections of the perpendiculars taken from on given
cevians respectively, with , , then the points are collinear.

Proof. We note with , see

Figure 1. According to Ceva’s theorem, trigonometric form, we have the
relation:

We notice that:

Because: as angles of perpendicular sides, it follows that

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Therewith

We thus get that:

Analogously, we find that:

Figure 1.

Applying the reciprocal of Menelaus'

P
theorem, we find, in view of (1),
that:

This shows that are collinear.

Note. Theorem 1 is true even if is an obtuse, nonisosceles triangle. The

proof is adapted analogously.

Theorem 2 (The Dual of the Theorem 1). If is a triangle, a certain

point in his plan, and Bobillier transversals relative to of
triangle, as well as a certain transversal in , and the
perpendiculars in , and on respectively, intersect the Bobillier

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transversals in the points , then the ceviens are
concurrent.

Proof. We convert by duality with respect to a circle the figure

indicated by the statement of this theorem, i.e. Figure 2. Let be the
polars of the points with respect to the circle To the lines
will correspond their poles

To the points will

respectively correspond their
polars concurrent in
transversal’s pole

Since , it means that

the polars and are
perpendicular, so , but Figure 2.

pass through , which means

that contains the height from
of triangle and
similarly contains the height
from and contains the
height from of triangle. Consequently, the pole of
transversal is the orthocenter of triangle. In the same way, to the
points will correspond the polars to which pass
respectively through and are concurrent in a point , the pole of the
line with respect to the circle Given it means
that the polara and are perpendicular, correspond to the cevian
also passes through the the pole of the transversal , so through

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 , in other words is perpendicular taken from on ; similarly,
, so is perpendicular taken from on To the cevian
will correspond by duality considered to its pole, which is the
intersection of the polars of and , i.e. the intersection of lines and ,
namely the intersection of with the perpendicular taken from on ;
we denote this point by . Analogously, we get the points and Thereby,
we got the configuration from Theorem 1 and Figure 1, written for triangle
of orthocenter Since from Theorem 1 we know that are
collinear, we get the the cevians are concurrent in the pole of
transversal with respect to the circle and Theorem 2 is
proved.

References

[1] Ion Patrascu, Florentin Smarandache: „The Dual Theorem

concerning Aubert Line”.

[2] Florentin Smarandache, Ion Patrascu: „The Geometry of Homological

Triangles”. The Education Publisher Inc., Columbus, Ohio, USA – 2012.

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