How did Ramanujan solve the STRAND puzzle
Today s video is about making sense of an infinite fraction that pops up in an anecdote about the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. This was supposed to be a short video but in the end turned out to be quite a tricky to sort out. Anyway, as it sometimes happens, I got carried away and now the video really covers a lot of ground : Pell equations, visualising continued fractions by dissecting rectangles into squares, the relationship between continued fractions and the Euclidean algorithm, the
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