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Continued fractions and modular functions
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  • W. Duke
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Box 951555, Los Angeles, California 90095-1555
  • Email: wdduke@ucla.edu
  • Received by editor(s): November 4, 2003
  • Published electronically: January 25, 2005
  • Additional Notes: Research supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0355564.
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  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 137-162
  • MSC (2000): Primary 11Fxx, 11Gxx
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01047-5
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