Use the congruent number elliptic curve in the equivalent coordinates
The rational point lies on it, since . By the preceding rational torsion of a congruent number curve result, every rational torsion point of an elliptic curve has or is . Thus is not a torsion point of an elliptic curve, and its positive multiples give infinitely many distinct rational points with nonzero .
For any such point , put
The identity proves that these positive rational numbers are the sides of a right triangle. Their area is
All three sides are nonzero because a point with has . For the construction gives .
It remains to ensure that infinitely many points do not describe only finitely many triangles. Given the ordered positive pair , set . Then satisfies
There are at most two possible , then at most two signs of and two signs of . Thus each ordered triangle has at most eight preimages; allowing interchange of its legs still gives a finite number. There are infinitely many distinct rational right triangles of area . This is the infinitely many rational right triangles from a nontorsion point principle.