Ramanujan's continued fraction (Q1063051)
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Ramanujan's continued fraction (English)
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1985
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The author presents Ramanujan's beautiful work on the continued fraction \[ \frac{1}{1+}\frac{x}{1+}\frac{x^ 2}{1+}\frac{x^ 3}{1+}.... \] The paper gives some proofs but mainly centers on a presentation of Ramanujan's work as a part of history of mathematics and development of mathematical knowledge.
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continued fractions
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Ramanujan's work
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