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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Food For Thought Seminar

Alex Eustis

UCSD

A Weighted Tiling Model for Continued Fractions

Abstract:

Ever been curious about continued fractions? This talk will cover the basics, and demonstrate how they are closely related to weighted square-and-domino tilings. In particular we'll do a neat bijection that "compresses" a board with periodic weights into a smaller period-1 board, and then show how this can be used to calculate periodic continued fractions. In addition, one can prove a number of Fibonacci/Lucas identities combinatorially using this model.

January 22, 2009

10:00 AM

AP&M 7321

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