PYTHAGOREAN TRIPLES : LONG STORY OF A PROBLEM.

Irineu BICUDO[1]

§    ABSTRACT: Our goal in this paper is to underline the four thousand years of history of a simple problem - the problem of the Pythagorean triples - from the cuneiform text " Plimpton 322 " to the truthfulness of Mordell's conjecture.

§    KEYWORDS: Pythagorean triples

 



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