History of Continued Fractions and PadΓ©
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Claude Brezinski (auth.)
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Library
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1991
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Springer
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English
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The history of continued fractions is certainly one of the longest among those of mathematical concepts, since it begins with Euclid's algorithm for the greatΒ est common divisor at least three centuries B.C. As it is often the case and like Monsieur Jourdain in Moliere's "Ie bourgeois gentilhomme"