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A Brief Journey in Discrete MathematicsRunning Off the Page

A Brief Journey in Discrete Mathematics: Running Off the Page [The analysis in this chapter illustrates Temple’s observation regarding the necessity for creative imagination in mathematics. A simple expression is all that is needed to develop the theory of continued fractions which leads to a deep theorem of Lagrange and also leads to an optimal way to approximate real numbers as rational fractions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Brief Journey in Discrete MathematicsRunning Off the Page

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-37860-8
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133 –159
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-37861-5_10
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[The analysis in this chapter illustrates Temple’s observation regarding the necessity for creative imagination in mathematics. A simple expression is all that is needed to develop the theory of continued fractions which leads to a deep theorem of Lagrange and also leads to an optimal way to approximate real numbers as rational fractions.]

Published: Feb 12, 2020

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