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Randolph Nelson
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Chapter Chapter 10 in A Brief Journey in Discrete Mathematics, 2020, pp 133-159 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The analysis in this chapter illustrates Temple’s observation regarding the necessity for creative imagination in mathematics. A simple expression is all that is needed to develop the theory of continued fractions which leads to a deep theorem of Lagrange and also leads to an optimal way to approximate real numbers as rational fractions.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37861-5_10

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