- Title
- Neverending fractions: an introduction to continued fractions
- Creator
- Borwein, Jonathan; Poorten, Alf Van Der; Shallit, Jeffrey; Zudilin, Wadim
- Relation
- Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series 23
- Relation
- http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics/number-theory/neverending-fractions-introduction-continued-fractions?format=PB
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Despite their classical nature, continued fractions are a neverending research area, with a body of results accessible enough to suit a wide audience, from researchers to students and even amateur enthusiasts. Neverending Fractions brings these results together, offering fresh perspectives on a mature subject. Beginning with a standard introduction to continued fractions, the book covers a diverse range of topics, from elementary and metric properties, to quadratic irrationals, to more exotic topics such as folded continued fractions and Somos sequences. Along the way, the authors reveal some amazing applications of the theory to seemingly unrelated problems in number theory. Previously scattered throughout the literature, these applications are brought together in this volume for the first time. A wide variety of exercises guide readers through the material, which will be especially helpful to readers using the book for self-study, and the authors also provide many pointers to the literature.
- Subject
- fractions; continued fractions; processes
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064537
- Identifier
- uon:17585
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780521186490
- Language
- eng
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