A short proof of the simple continued fraction expansion of e
Number Theory
2007-05-23 v3
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0601660,
title = {A short proof of the simple continued fraction expansion of e},
author = {Henry Cohn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601660},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages; only change from published version is that "Riccati" is now spelled correctly