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Continued fractions and modular functions

Author(s): W. Duke
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 137-162.
MSC (2000): Primary 11Fxx, 11Gxx
Posted: January 25, 2005
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W. Duke
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Box 951555, Los Angeles, California 90095-1555
Email: wdduke@ucla.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01047-5
PII: S 0273-0979(05)01047-5
Received by editor(s): November 4, 2003
Posted: January 25, 2005
Additional Notes: Research supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0355564.
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