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In this chapter, we shall follow the history of continued fractions and Padé approximants up to 1939. Of course the results which were obtained during that period are mostly the continuation of those proved during the nineteenth century and the border with the preceding chapter is mainly arbitrary. This is, in particular, true for the work of Padé himself, which extends from 1892 to 1907. However, since a division was necessary after so long a chapter, I have made one, but the reader interested in one particular subject is invited to jump across that border.
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Brezinski, C. (1991). The Modern Times. In: History of Continued Fractions and Padé Approximants. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58169-4_7
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