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* [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/EulerLine/ "Euler Line"] by Eric Rowland, the [[Wolfram Demonstrations Project]], 2007.
* [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/EulerLine/ "Euler Line"] by Eric Rowland, the [[Wolfram Demonstrations Project]], 2007.
* [http://math.kennesaw.edu/~mdevilli/conicEuler.html Nine-point conic and Euler line generalization] at [http://math.kennesaw.edu/~mdevilli/JavaGSPLinks.htm Dynamic Geometry Sketches] Generalizes nine-point circle to a nine-point conic with an associated generalization of the Euler line.
* [http://dynamicmathematicslearning.com/ninepointconic.html Nine-point conic and Euler line generalization] at [http://dynamicmathematicslearning.com/JavaGSPLinks.htm Dynamic Geometry Sketches] Generalizes nine-point circle to a nine-point conic with an associated generalization of the Euler line.
* [http://dynamicmathematicslearning.com/furtherEuler.html A further Euler line generalization] at [http://dynamicmathematicslearning.com/JavaGSPLinks.htm Dynamic Geometry Sketches] Generalizes the Euler line further by disassociating it from the nine-point conic - see above.


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Euler's line (red) is a straight line through the centroid (orange), orthocenter (blue), circumcenter (green) and center of the nine-point circle (red).

In geometry, the Euler line, named after Leonhard Euler, is a line determined from any triangle that is not equilateral; it passes through several important points determined from the triangle. It passes through the orthocenter, the circumcenter, the centroid, and the center of the nine-point circle of the triangle.

Euler showed in 1765 that in any triangle, the orthocenter, circumcenter and centroid are collinear. This property is also true for the nine-point center, although it had not been defined in Euler's time. In equilateral triangles, these four points coincide, but in any other triangle they do not, and the Euler line is determined by any two of them. The center of the nine-point circle lies midway along the Euler line between the orthocenter and the circumcenter, and the distance from the centroid to the circumcenter is half that from the centroid to the orthocenter.

Other notable points that lie on the Euler line are the de Longchamps point, the Schiffler point, the Exeter point and the far-out point. However, the incenter lies on the Euler line only for isosceles triangles.

The Euler line is its own complement, and therefore also its own anticomplement.

Let A, B, C denote the vertex angles of the reference triangle, and let x : y : z be a variable point in trilinear coordinates; then an equation for the Euler line is

Another particularly useful way to represent the Euler line is in terms of a parameter t. Starting with the circumcenter (with trilinears ) and the orthocenter (with trilinears , every point on the Euler line, except the orthocenter, is given as

for some t.

Examples:

  • centroid =
  • nine-point center =
  • De Longchamps point =
  • Euler infinity point =

References

  • Euler, Leonhard (1767). "Solutio facilis problematum quorundam geometricorum difficillimorum". Novi Commentarii academiae scientarum imperialis Petropolitanae. 11: 103–123. E325. Reprinted in Opera Omnia, ser. I, vol. XXVI, pp. 139–157, Societas Scientiarum Naturalium Helveticae, Lausanne, 1953, MR0061061.
  • Kimberling, Clark (1998). "Triangle centers and central triangles". Congressus Numerantium. 129: i–xxv, 1–295.