Related papers: Pell's equation without irrational numbers
Pell-Abel equation is a functional equation of the form P^{2}-DQ^{2} = 1, with a given polynomial D free of squares and unknown polynomials P and Q. We show that the space of Pell-Abel equations with the fixed degrees of D and of a…
If the continued fractions of two irrational numbers have a common complete quotient, then these two numbers are in the same orbit under the action of $\mathrm{PGL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$. The converse is Serret's well-known theorem, but we give a…
Kepler's laws are derived from the inverse square law without the use of calculus and are simplified over previous such derivations.
Pell's equation is x^2-d*y^2=1 where d is a square-free integer and we seek positive integer solutions x,y>0. Let (x',y') be the smallest solution (i.e. having smallest A=x'+y'sqrt(d)). Lagrange showed that every solution can easily be…
Partial differential equations with distributional sources---in particular, involving (derivatives of) delta distributions---have become increasingly ubiquitous in numerous areas of physics and applied mathematics. It is often of…
We define an extension of parity from the integers to the rational numbers. Three parity classes are found -- even, odd and `none'. Using the 2-adic valuation, we partition the rationals into subgroups with a rich algebraic structure. The…
In a previous work, we developed the idea to solve Kepler's equation with a CORDIC-like algorithm, which does not require any division, but still multiplications in each iteration. Here we overcome this major shortcoming and solve Kepler's…
Let $a,b,c $ be any positive integers such that $c\mid ab$ and $d_i^\pm$ is a square free positive integer of the form $d_i^\pm=a^{2k} b^{2l}\pm i c^m$ where $k,l \geq m$ and $i=1,2.$ The main focus of this paper to find the fundamental…
In this paper a general class of tree algorithms is analyzed. It is shown that, by using an appropriate probabilistic representation of the quantities of interest, the asymptotic behavior of these algorithms can be obtained quite easily…
We present a new approach to solving polynomial ordinary differential equations by transforming them to linear functional equations and then solving the linear functional equations. We will focus most of our attention upon the first-order…
We study a generalization of Pell's equation, whose coefficients are certain algebraic integers. Let $X_0=0$ and $X_n=\sqrt{2+X_{n-1}}$ for each $n\in \mathbb{Z}_{\ge 1}$. We study the $\mathbb{Z}[X_{n-1}]$-solutions of the equation…
We propose interconnections between some problems of PDE, geometry, algebra, calculus and physics. Uniqueness of a solution of the Dirichlet problem and of some other boundary value problems for the string equation inside an arbitrary…
We consider the Poisson equation in a domain with a small hole of size $\delta$. We present a simple numerical method, based on an asymptotic analysis, which allows to approximate robustly the far field of the solution as $\delta$ goes to…
In this paper, we define a new product over $\mathbb{R}^{\infty}$, which allows us to obtain a group isomorphic to $\mathbb R^*$ with the usual product. This operation unexpectedly offers an interpretation of the R\'edei rational functions,…
Using Pascal triangle, we give a simple generalization to the so-called STRAND Puzzle solved by Srinivasa Ramanujan. Thus we are interested in computing the median, first and third quartiles of some integer valued distributions, arising…
In the present paper we introduce old and new results related to St\"ormer theorem about Pell equations. Moreover we give four types of applications of these results.
We solve the two Diophantine equations $P_k=J_n+J_m$ and $Q_k=J_n+J_m$ where $\left\lbrace P_{k}\right\rbrace_{k\geq0}$, $\left\lbrace Q_{k}\right\rbrace_{k\geq0}$ and $\left\lbrace J_{k}\right\rbrace_{k\geq0}$ are the sequences of Pell…
We prove that in an arbitrary semigroup without cycles, the problem of divisibility and, therefore, the word problem is solvable.
We consider the negative polynomial Pell's equation $P^2(X)-D(X)Q^2(X)=-1$, where $D(X)\in \mathbb{Z}[X]$ be some fixed, monic, square-free, even degree polynomials. In this paper, we investigate the existence of polynomial solutions $P(X),…
We present an astonishingly simple and elegant proof of the celebrated Basel problem.