opposing angles in a cyclic quadrilateral are supplementary
Theorem 1.
[Euclid, Book III, Prop. 22] If a quadrilateral is inscribed
in a circle, then opposite angles of the quadrilateral sum to .
Proof.
Let be a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle
Note that subtends arc and subtends arc . Now, since a circumferential angle is half the corresponding central angle, we see that is one half of the sum of the two angles at . But the sum of these two angles is , so that
Similarly, the sum of the other two opposing angles is also .∎