Autor: Francesco Amoroso

These lecture notes originate from a course delivered at the Scuola Normale in Pisa in 2006. Generally speaking, the prerequisites do not go beyond basic mathematical material and are accessible to m …

Diophantine Approximation is a branch of Number Theory having its origins intheproblemofproducing"best"rationalapproximationstogivenrealn- bers. Since the early work of Lagrange on Pell’s e …