How to generate all integral triangles containing a given angle.

DOI10.1155/S016117120000048XMaRDI QIDQ5926161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nelson Petulante, Ifeoma Kaja

Publication date 2000

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/50870

zbMATH Keywords

integral triangleslaw of cosinePythagorean triplesquadratic Diophantine equationsrational secant method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Rational points (14G05)

Review text

Summary: We present an elementary prescription based on the rational secant method for generating all the integral triangles containing a given angle of rational cosine. This is a direct generalization of the ancient problem of finding all the Pythagorean triples. As an example, we discuss a specific equation studied by Diophantus of Alexandria, which turns out to be equivalent to the problem of finding all the integral triangles containing a \(60^\circ\) angle. The material developed here is elementary enough for inclusion in undergraduate courses and advanced high school courses.

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