Nadir Murru

Approximations of Irrationalities by Using Linear Recurrent Sequences Nadir Murru

The book is devoted to the approximation and periodic representation of algebraic numbers, like quadratic and cubic irrationalities. Continued fractions surely provide rational approximations and periodic representation for quadratic irrationals. Here, new kinds of representation for square roots are exploited with the aid of linear recurrent sequences. A beautiful connection with the solution of the Pell equation is highlighted, finding an original way to solve it through a group structure over the Pell hyperbola. Moreover, similar results are obtained and illustrated for cubic irrationals, approaching the Hermite problem, i.e., the problem of finding a way to write algebraic numbers (irrational numbers that are solution of some algebraic equation with rational coefficients) as a periodic sequence of integers.