Besides their well-known value in number theory, continued fractions are
also a useful tool in modern numerical applications and computer
science. The goal of the book is to revisit the almost forgotten
classical theory and to contextualize it for contemporary numerical
applications and signal processing, thus enabling students and scientist
to apply classical mathematics on recent problems. The books tries to be
mostly self-contained and to make the material accessible for all
interested readers. This provides a new view from an applied
perspective, combining the classical recursive techniques of continued
fractions with orthogonal problems, moment problems, Prony's problem of
sparse recovery and the design of stable rational filters, which are all
connected by continued fractions.