Timeline for Relation between indefinite quadratic forms and continued fractions
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| Jul 10, 2010 at 8:56 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | I think that this answer is a little bit misleading. The connection between reduction theory of indefinite binary quadratic forms and the theory of continued fractions is indeed classical. Shanks infrastructure, on the other hand, gives some kind of an "almost group structure" on the principal cycle, i.e., the unit element of the class group. In addition to the references already given I'd suggest Jacobson & Williams, Solving the Pell Equation. | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 3:12 | history | answered | Victor Miller | CC BY-SA 2.5 |