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Recent Advances in the Metric Theory of Continued Fractions

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Transactions of the Eighth Prague Conference

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This is a survey of recent results in the metric theory of continued fractions concerning Gauss-Kuzmin-Lévy theorem and extreme value theory.

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Iosifescu, M. (1978). Recent Advances in the Metric Theory of Continued Fractions. In: Transactions of the Eighth Prague Conference. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, vol 8A. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9857-5_3

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