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- Includes many insights into diophantine approximation by one of the field's leading contributors
- Covers both classical results and recent research developments
- Provides detailed and well-motivated proofs, enabling the reader to grasp key ideas behind difficult arguments
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Monographs in Mathematics (SMM)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global Aspects Randomness of the Irrational Rotation
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Front Matter
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Local Aspects Inhomogeneous Pell Inequalities
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book gives a comprehensive treatment of random phenomena and distribution results in diophantine approximation, with a particular emphasis on quadratic irrationals. It covers classical material on the subject as well as many new results developed by the author over the past decade. A range of ideas from other areas of mathematics are brought to bear with surprising connections to topics such as formulae for class numbers, special values of L-functions, and Dedekind sums. Care is taken to elaborate difficult proofs by motivating major steps and accompanying them with background explanations, enabling the reader to learn the theory and relevant techniques.
Written by one of the acknowledged experts in the field, Probabilistic Diophantine Approximation is presented in a clear and informal style with sufficient detail to appeal to both advanced students and researchers in number theory.
Reviews
“The author has written a monograph with new results in a new direction of research in probability and number theory, including algebraic number theory. … The book is presented in a clear style and will be valuable for researchers in the field.” (Oto Strauch, Mathematical Reviews, October, 2015)
“Novel, important, intuitively appealing mathematics and a highly readable account. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (D. V. Feldman, Choice, Vol. 52 (11), July, 2015)
“Beck’s book brings together probability theory, algebraic number theory, and combinatorics to forge new ground. … the book is accessible to a wide range of mathematicians. … Beck did a nice job of motivating the questions and explaining theanswers.” (Darren Glass, MAA Reviews, July, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA
József Beck
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Probabilistic Diophantine Approximation
Book Subtitle: Randomness in Lattice Point Counting
Authors: József Beck
Series Title: Springer Monographs in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10741-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10740-0Published: 22 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35465-1Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10741-7Published: 06 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1439-7382
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9922
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 487
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Number Theory, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes