Rational right triangles of a given area

DOI10.1080/00029890.2018.1495491MaRDI QIDQ4685114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Stephanie Chan

Publication date 5 October 2018

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05919

zbMATH Keywords

congruent numbersEuclidean geometrygeometric construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: Starting from any given rational-sided, right triangle, for example the $(3,4,5)$-triangle with area $6$, we use Euclidean geometry to show that there are infinitely many other rational-sided, right triangles of the same area. We show further that the set of all such triangles of a given area is finitely generated under our geometric construction. Such areas are known as "congruent numbers" and have a rich history in which all the results in this article have been proved and far more. Yet, as far as we can tell, this seems to be the first exploration using this kind of geometric technique.

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