스튜어트의 정리(
Stewart's theorem)는 삼각형을 구성하는 선분들의 길이에 관한 식이다.
스튜어트는 스코틀랜드의 수학자 다.
정리

는 삼각형의 세 변의 길이라고 하고,

는 변

와 그 반대편의 꼭지점을 잇는 선분의 길이라고 하자.

가 변

를 길이

,

으로 나눈다고 하면, 다음 관계가 성립한다.

특히

일 경우

는 중선이 되고 이때 관계식은 중선정리가 된다.
증명

는

과

가 이루는 각이고,

는

과

가 이루는 각이라 하자. 두 각을 합하면 180도 이므로 코사인의 성질 때문에

이다. 코사인 법칙에 의해 다음 식이 성립한다.

첫 번째 식에

을 곱하고, 두 번째 식에

을 곱하여 더해서

를 제거하면 다음을 얻는다.

Stewart's Theorem
Let a
Cevian 
be drawn on a
triangle 
, and denote the lengths

and

, with

. Then Stewart's theorem, also called Apollonius' theorem, states that
In particular, if

is the fraction of the distance of

from vertex

to vertex

and

, then

,

, and
giving the above identity.
Bottema (1979) extended the formula to
simplices in higher dimensions, and Bottema (1980-1981) explicitly considered the
tetrahedron.
Wolfram| MathWorld
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