<s>[INST] Find all solutions in positive integers of the diophantine equation $w^2+x^2+y^2=z^2$ It's an exercises of the text book Elementary Number Theory and It's Applications 6th Edition by Kenneth H.Rosen. I wanted to solve it using the method in solving the diophantine equation $x^2+y^2=z^2$. But some difficult gaps showed up. And I found that the rational solutions of $w^2+x^2+y^2=1$ is
$$w = \frac{2s}{1+s^2+t^2}$$
$$x = \frac{2t}{1+s^2+t^2}$$
$$y = \frac{1-s^2 - t^2}{1+s^2+t^2}$$
where $s$ and $t$ are both rational numbers. From this I found out that
$$(2mnq^2)^2 + (2pqn^2)^2 + (n^2q^2 - m^2q^2-n^2p^2)^2 = (n^2q^2 + m^2q^2+n^2p^2)^2.$$
But it helps little because I cannot prove that the solutions have to be in such form.
Can any one help?
 [/INST] Aspects of your question have been covered here about Lebesgue's Identity,
lebesgue's identity
and a general approach to $x_1^2+x_2^2+\dots+x_n^2 = z^2$,
Diophatine equation $x^2+y^2+z^2=t^2$
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