- Series
- Undergraduate Seminar
- Time
- Monday, September 16, 2019 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- Doron Lubinsky – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Neha Gupta Enid Steinbart
Continued fractions play a key role in number theory, especially in understanding how well we can approximate irrational numbers by rational numbers. They also play an important role in function theory, in understanding how well we can approximate analytic functions by rational functions. We discuss a few of the main achievements of the theory.