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green area + blue area = red area Pythagoras as a special case:green area = red area In geometry, Apollonius's theorem is a theorem relating the length of a median of a triangle to the lengths of its sides. It states that the sum of the squares of any two sides of any triangle equals twice the square on half the third side plus twice the square on the median bisecting the third side.
The theorem is found as proposition VII.122 of Pappus of Alexandria's Collection (c. 340 AD). It may have been in Apollonius of Perga's lost treatise Plane Loci (c. 200 BC), and was included in Robert Simson's 1749 reconstruction of that work.
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