Menelaus was one of the later Greek geometers who applied spherical geometry to astronomy. He is best known for the so-called Menelaus's theorem. He was possibly born in Alexandria, Egypt, around the year 70 and died around the year 130. The theorem states a relation between the ratios in which a line cuts the sides of a triangle, and it has a spherical version used in ancient astronomy. The theorem is named for him, and he is one of the main Greek writers on spherical trigonometry.
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Menelaus was one of the later Greek geometers who applied spherical geometry to astronomy. He is best known for the so-called Menelaus's theorem.
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Menelaus was one of the later Greek geometers who applied spherical geometry to astronomy. He is best known for the so-called Menelaus's theorem.
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In Euclidean geometry, Menelaus's theorem, named for Menelaus of Alexandria, is a proposition about triangles in plane geometry
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