Diophantine Approximation Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, June 28 – July 6, 2000 / by David Masser, Yuri V. Nesterenko, Hans Peter Schlickewei, Wolfgang M. Schmidt, Michel Waldschmidt ; edited by Francesco Amoroso, Umberto Zannier.

Diophantine Approximation is a branch of Number Theory having its origins intheproblemofproducing“best”rationalapproximationstogivenrealn- bers. Since the early work of Lagrange on Pell’s equation and the pioneering work of Thue on the rational approximations to algebraic numbers of degree ? 3, it h...

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Main Authors: Masser, David (Author), Nesterenko, Yuri V. (Author), Schlickewei, Hans Peter (Author), Schmidt, Wolfgang M. (Author), Waldschmidt, Michel (Author)
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Other Authors: Amoroso, Francesco (Editor), Zannier, Umberto (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
Edition:1st ed. 2003.
Series:C.I.M.E. Foundation Subseries ; 1819
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Table of Contents:
  • Heights, Transcendence, and Linear Independence on Commutative Group Varieties
  • Linear Forms in Logarithms of Rational Numbers
  • Approximation of Algebraic Numbers
  • Linear Recurrence Sequences
  • Linear Independence Measures for Logarithms of Algebraic Numbers.