Transcendence Theory, Advances and Applications

Download or read book Transcendence Theory, Advances and Applications written by A. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an account of the proceedings of a conference on transcendence theory and its applications held in the University of Cambridge during January and February, 1976. The sixteen papers reflect the considerable current activity in this area, and establish a wide variety of original results. The papers have been arranged in groups with a common themes, such as the theory of linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers and its applications, the transcendence theory of elliptic and Abelian functions, and linear and algebraic independence of meromorphic functions, and arithmetical properties of polynomials in several variables.