History of mathematical notation back to any school or period before that of the Ionian Greeks, but the subsequent history may be divided into periods, the distinctions between which are tolerably well marked. Greek mathematics, which originated with the study of geometry, tended from its commencement to be deductive and scientific. Since the fourth century AD, Pythagoras has commonly been given credit for discovering the Pythagorean theorem, a theorem in geometry that states that in a right-angled triangle the area of the square on the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares of
Incircle and excircles of a triangle using the side lengths of the triangle relative to the perimeter—i.e., using the barycentric coordinates given above, normalized to sum to unity—as weights. (The weights are positive so the incenter lies inside the triangle as stated above.) If the three vertices are located at formula_14, formula_15, and formula_16, and the sides opposite these vertices have corresponding lengths formula_7, formula_8, and formula_9, then the incenter is at Denoting the incenter of triangle "ABC" as "I", the distances from the incenter to the vertices combined with the lengths of the triangle sides obey the equation Additionally, where "R" and "r" are the