Summary: A prime Pythagorean triangle has three integer sides of which the hypotenuse and one leg are primes. In this article we investigate their properties and distribution. We are also interested in finding chains of such triangles, where the hypotenuse of one triangle is the leg of the next in the sequence. We exhibit a chain of seven prime Pythagorean triangles and we include a brief discussion of primality proofs for the larger elements (up to 2310 digits) of the associated set of eight primes.

11A41

Pythagorean triangles, prime numbers, primality proving