Ramanujan's Continued Fractions and Platonic Solids



[Moderator's note: I posted this already, but somehow it ended up with
my address in the from field. I apologize for the confusion. ]

Hello all,

It turns out there is a connection between Ramanujan's continued
fractions and, of all things, the Platonic solids. See,

http://www.geocities.com/titus_piezas/ramanujan_page6.html

It's a pdf file (kfunction2.pdf)


(P.S. In the paper, only the icosahedral and octahedral groups had a
continued fraction associated with it. If anybody knows the continued
fraction associated with the symmetry group of the tetrahedron, I would
appreciate an email.)


--Titus

(tpiezasIII@xxxxxxxxxx -> remove "III" for email)

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