Continued fractions : from analytic number theory to constructive approximation : a volume in honor of L.J. Lange : continued fractions, from analytic number theory to constructive approximation, May 20-23, 1998, University of Missouri-Columbia / / Bruce C. Berndt, Fritz Gesztesy, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788651403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999]; ©1999
• ISBN: 0-8218-7827-1; 0-8218-1200-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (402 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 236 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 515/.243
• Soggetti: Continued fractions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Preface and Dedication -- List of Participants -- Continued fractions and orthogonal polynomials -- The problems submitted by Ramanujan to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society -- Some examples of moment preserving approximation -- Relations between certain symmetric strong Stieltjes distributions -- Estimates of the rate of convergence for certain quadrature formulas on the half-line -- Wavelets by orthogonal rational kernels -- On the explicit evaluations of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction -- Absence of phase transitions in modified two-component plasmas: The analytic theory of continued fractions in statistical mechanics -- Some continued fractions related to elliptic functions -- Asymptotics of Stieltjes continued fraction coefficients and applications to Whittaker functions -- A generalization of Van Vleck's theorem and more on complex continued fractions -- Convergence of interpolating Laurent polynomials on an annulus -- Convergence criteria for continued fractions K(an/1) based on value sets -- Strong Stieltjes moment problems -- .