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From fixed points to continued fractions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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Here are two fascinating topics in mathematics. The expansion of a number as a continued fraction, a heritage of the “old-fashioned” algebra curriculum, is happily enjoying a revival at present. The idea of a function having fixed points is so diffuse as to find applications in the most unexpected parts of mathematics and we shall see how it even has implications for continued fractions.
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