Complex continued fractions: early work of the brothers Adolf and Julius Hurwitz

DOI10.1007/s00407-014-0135-7zbMath1304.01026MaRDI QIDQ461375

Jörn Steuding, Nicola M. R. Oswald

Publication date: 10 October 2014

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-014-0135-7

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractions; Gaussian integers; Adolf Hurwitz; Julius Hurwitz

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

11-03: History of number theory

11A55: Continued fractions

11R04: Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

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