02555nam 2200553Ia 450 991046572730332120220126211912.00-88385-926-2(CKB)2560000000081419(SSID)ssj0000742764(PQKBManifestationID)11418408(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742764(PQKBWorkID)10780160(PQKB)10198098(UkCbUP)CR9780883859261(MiAaPQ)EBC3330383(Au-PeEL)EBL3330383(CaPaEBR)ebr10729354(OCoLC)929120429(EXLCZ)99256000000008141920111006d1963 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrContinued fractions[electronic resource] /by C. D. OldsWashington, D.C. Mathematical Association of America19631 online resource (viii, 162 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library ;no. 9Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-88385-609-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Expansion of rational fractions -- Diophantine equations -- Expansion of irrational numbers -- Periodic continued fractions -- Epilogue.Continued fractions were studied by the great mathematicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and are a subject of active investigation today. Fractions of this form provide much insight into many mathematical problems — particularly into the nature of numbers — and the theory of continued fractions is a powerful tool in number theory and other mathematical disciplines. The author of this book presents an easy-going discussion of simple continued fractions, beginning with an account of how rational fractions can be expanded into continued fractions. Gradually the reader is introduced to such topics as the application of continued fractions to the solution of Diophantine equations, and the expansion of irrational numbers into infinite continued fractions.Continued fractionsSeriesElectronic books.Continued fractions.Series.512.73Olds C. D(Carl Douglas),1912-1979.1074126MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465727303321Continued fractions2571456UNINA