Why 3 and 5 are always factors of primitive Pythagorean triples

DOI10.1080/0020739X.2010.510219MaRDI QIDQ3069686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. V. Leyendekkers, A. G. Shannon

Publication date 19 January 2011

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2010.510219

zbMATH Keywords

Pythagorean tripletriangular numberpentagonal number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Number theory (educational aspects) (97F60)

Cites work

• A Note on twin primes and the modular ring Z 6
• Arrowhead curves in a tree of Pythagorean triples

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