Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
In Crelle's Journal, vol. x., Stern devotes fifteen pages (pp. 245-259) of his Theorie der Kettenbrüche to the examination and elucidation of the following problems:—
as continued fractions of the form
where a1, a2, a3, … are independent of x.
page 467 note * “ Hier scheint es vielmehr nothwendig zu sein, einen einfachen Ausdruck zu finden, welcher jeden Theilnenner am (oder jedes Nm, Nm+1) unmittelbar aus den Reihencoefficienten A1, A2, … finden lehrt. Der Verfasser hat sich vergebens bemüht die Lösung dieser Aufgabe zu finden, vielleicht aber können die mitgetheilten Ausdrücke für Nm, Nm+1, welche wohl nirgendwo angegeben sind, darauf führen.”—Crelle's Journal, vol. x. p. 257.
page 468 note * See paper on “Continuants” in the Proc. R. S. E. for 1873–74, and pamphlet on “ The Expression of a Quadratic Surd as a Continued Fraction,” Glasgow, 1874.
page 470 note † Disquisitio circa seriem infinitam in the Abhandl. der Götting. Gesellsch. d. Wissensch. Bd ii. 1812.
page 471 note * Opuscula Analytica, t. ii p. 138.
page 471 note † One such method has since been discovered by the author, and communicated to the Mathematical Society of London, in a paper read February 10th, 1876.