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By Thomas W. Cusick

ISBN-10: 0821815318

ISBN-13: 9780821815311

This publication is directed at mathematicians drawn to Diophantine approximation and the speculation of quadratic kinds and the connection of those topics to Markoff and Lagrange spectra. The authors have amassed and systemized a number of effects from the various and scattered literature, a lot of which has seemed in fairly inaccessible Russian courses. Readers will discover a accomplished evaluate of the speculation of the Markoff and Lagrange spectra, beginning with the origins of the topic in papers of A. Markoff from 1879-80. many of the growth on account that that point has happened within the final two decades or so, whilst there was a resurgence of curiosity in those spectra. The authors supply an exceptional exposition of those advancements, as well as featuring many proofs and correcting quite a few error within the literature.

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