A short proof of the simple continued fraction expansion of e

Details A short proof of the simple continued fraction expansion of e A short proof of the simple continued fraction expansion of e

2006-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/math/0601660v3

American Mathematical Monthly 113 (2006), 57-62

Mathematics

Number Theory

6 pages; only change from published version is that "Riccati" is now spelled correctly

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This note presents an especially short and direct variant of Hermite's proof
of the simple continued fraction expansion e = [2,1,2,1,1,4,1,1,6,...] and
explains some of the motivation behind it.

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