This material in this classic work is mostly accessible to the undergraduate level engineer, mathematics, or other reader with similar background, but a good portion of this book is about measure theory of continued fractions, which is more easily accessed by those who have some mathematics background at the graduate level.
Measure theory is the theory of the fraction of the extent of a domain that is mapped from the range of inputs to a function. Measure theory is used primarily by Khinchin and his students, but similar work is posed in terms of probability theory and other contexts by other mathematicians. Once this is understood (and it is hinted at by a footnote or two from the translator), this material becomes as accessible as the rest of the material.
The book begins with a minor aside in a proof of convergence of continued fractions that have real partial numerators and denominators, whose partial numerators are all unity, and the sum of whose partial denominators diverges. Since the simple classical number-theoretic continued fractions are the subject of the book, this proof clearly includes all such continued fractions. This minor excursion from number theory and algebra is a significant advantage to this particular book as it provides a bedrock for later rate-of-convergence discussions.
The related field of analytic theory of continued fractions that was explored by Riemann, Stieltjes, Tchebychev, Padé, Hamburger, Cesàro, and others that are contemporary to Khinchin (memorable classic by H.S. Wall was published in 1948, long after this book was written), is not ignored entirely.
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