Download or read book Distribution Theory of Algebraic Numbers written by Pei-Chu Hu and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book timely surveys new research results and related developments in Diophantine approximation, a division of number theory which deals with the approximation of real numbers by rational numbers. The book is appended with a list of challenging open problems and a comprehensive list of references. From the contents: Field extensions • Algebraic numbers • Algebraic geometry • Height functions • The abc-conjecture • Roth's theorem • Subspace theorems • Vojta's conjectures • L-functions.