About a month ago, I awoke from a dream totally psyched about the brilliant blog post I would write for Valentine's Day. In my dream, I had seen the mathematical concept of continued fractions as a ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The more I learn about continued fractions, ...
THE reviewer in NATURE, (vol. xiii., p. 304), very properly points out that the first mathematician who used continued fractions was Cataldi, and not Lord Brounker, as is still often stated.