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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451287403321

Autore

Hensley Doug

Titolo

Continued fractions [[electronic resource] /] / Doug Hensley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006

ISBN

1-281-91963-2

9786611919634

981-277-468-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 245 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

512.72

Soggetti

Continued fractions

Series

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

# Generalizations of the gcd and the Euclidean Algorithm # Continued Fractions with Small Partial Quotients # Ergodic Theory # Complex Continued Fractions # Multidimensional Diophantine Approximation # Powers of an Algebraic Integer # Marshall Hall's Theorem # Functional-Analytic Techniques # The Generating Function Method # Conformal Iterated Function Systems # Convergence of Continued Fractions

Sommario/riassunto

This text places emphasis on continued fraction Cantor sets and the Hausdorff dimension, algorithms and analysis of algorithms, and multi-dimensional algorithms for simultaneous diophantine approximation. Various computer-generated graphics are presented, and the underlying algorithms are discussed.