Observations on continued fractions


Abstract in English

This is a translation of Eulers Latin paper De fractionibus continuis observationes into English. In this paper Euler describes his theory of continued fractions. He teaches, how to transform series into continued fractions, solves the Riccati-Differential equation by means of continued fractions and finds many other interesting formulas and results (e.g, the continued fraction for the quotient of two hypergeometric series usually attributed to Gau{ss})

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