Diophantine Approximation: Festschrift for Wolfgang Schmidt - Developments in Mathematics 2008 edition

Marc Notes: Revised conference papers.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Preface -- The mathematical work of Wolfgang Schmidt / Hans Peter Schlickewei -- Schaffer's determinant argument / Roger C. Baker -- Arithmetic progressions and Tic-Tac-Toe games / Jozsef Beck -- Metric discrepancy results for sequences {n[subscript k]x} and Diophantine equations / Istvan Berkes, Walter Philipp, Robert F. Tichy -- Mahler's classification of numbers compared with Koksma's, II / Yann Bugeaud -- Rational approximations to a q-analogue of [pi] and some other q-series / Peter Bundschuh, Wadim Zudilin -- Orthogonality and digit shifts in the classical mean squares problem in irregularities of point distribution / William W. L. Chen, Maxim M. Skriganov -- Applications of the Subspace Theorem to certain Diophantine Problems: A survey of some recent results / Pietro Corvaja, Umberto Zannier -- A generalization of the Subspace Theorem with polynomials of higher degree / Jan-Hendrik Evertse, Roberto G. Ferretti -- On the Diophantine equation G[subscript n](x) = G[subscript m](y) with Q(x, y) = 0 / Clemens Fuchs, Attila Petho, Robert F. Tichy -- A criterion for polynomials to divide infinitely many k-nomials / Lajos Hajdu, Robert Tijdeman -- Approximants de Pade des q-polylogarithmes / Christian Krattenthaler, Tanguy Rivoal -- The set of solutions of some equation for linear recurrence sequences / Viktor Losert -- Counting algebraic numbers with large height I / David Masser, Jeffrey D. Vaaler -- Class number conditions for the diagonal case of the equation of Nagell and Ljunggren / Preda Mihalescu -- Construction of approximations to zeta-values / Yuri V. Nesterenko -- Quelques aspects diophantiens des varietes toriques projectives / Patrice Philippon, Martin Sombra -- Une inegalite de Lojasiewicz arithmetique / Gael Remond -- On the continued fraction expansion of a class of numbers / Damien Roy -- The number of solutions of a linear homogeneous congruence / Andrzej Schinzel -- A note on Lyapunov theory for Brun algorithm / Fritz Schweiger -- Orbit sums and modular vector invariants / Serguei A. Stepanov -- New irrationality results for dilogarithms of rational numbers / Carlo Viola.

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