Download or read book Continued Fractions with Applications written by L. Lorentzen and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1992-11-08 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at two kinds of readers: firstly, people working in or near mathematics, who are curious about continued fractions; and secondly, senior or graduate students who would like an extensive introduction to the analytic theory of continued fractions. The book contains several recent results and new angles of approach and thus should be of interest to researchers throughout the field. The first five chapters contain an introduction to the basic theory, while the last seven chapters present a variety of applications. Finally, an appendix presents a large number of special continued fraction expansions. This very readable book also contains many valuable examples and problems.