02570nam 2200565Ia 450 991113601950332120250728172320.00-88385-926-2(CKB)2560000000081419(SSID)ssj0000742764(PQKBManifestationID)11418408(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742764(PQKBWorkID)10780160(PQKB)10198098(UkCbUP)CR9780883859261(MiAaPQ)EBC3330383(Au-PeEL)EBL3330383(CaPaEBR)ebr10729354(OCoLC)929120429(RPAM)750222(EXLCZ)99256000000008141920111006d1963 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContinued fractions /by C. D. Olds1st ed.Washington, D.C. Mathematical Association of America19631 online resource (viii, 162 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library ;no. 9Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).0-88385-609-3 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 fractionsSeriesContinued fractions.Series.512.73Olds C. D40856MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911136019503321Continued fractions332299UNINA