Abstract:
This paper is a survey of classical and recent methods in Diophantine approximation theory and its applications related to Khintchine's results on the existence of real numbers admitting extremely good approximations by rational numbers.
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Keywords:multidimensional Diophantine approximations, Khintchine's singular systems, continued fractions, best approximations, Diophantine inequalities, transference theorems, Kozlov problem, Peres–Schlag method.