It was originally written in the Polish language by Wacław Sierpiński (titled Trójkąty pitagorejskie), and published in Warsaw in 1954.
[4] As a brief summary of the book's contents, reviewer Brian Hopkins quotes The Pirates of Penzance: "With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
[6] Chapter 10 describes Pythagorean triangles with a side or area that is a square or cube, connecting this problem to Fermat's Last Theorem.
[7] The book is aimed at mathematics teachers, in order to inspire their interest in this subject,[1] but (despite complaining that some of its proofs are overly complicated) reviewer Donald Vestal also suggests this as a "fun book for a mostly general audience".
[6] Reviewer Brian Hopkins suggests that some of the book's material could be simplified using modular notation and linear algebra, and that the book could benefit by updating it to include a bibliography, index, more than its one illustration, and pointers to recent research in this area such as the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem.