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THE reviewer in NATURE, (vol. xiii., p. 304), very properly points out that the first mathematician who used continued fractions was Cataldi, and not Lord Brounker, as is still often stated.
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MUIR, T. The Early History of Continued Fractions. Nature 13, 448 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013448b0
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