Contribution of Jonas Kubilius to the metric theory of Diophantine approximation of dependent variables

Abstract

The article is devoted to the latest results in metric theory of Diophantine approximation. One of the first major result in area of number theory was a theorem by academician Jonas Kubilius. This paper is dedicated to centenary of his birth. Over the last 70 years, the area of Diophantine approximation yielded a number of significant results by great mathematicians, including Fields prize winners Alan Baker and Grigori Margulis. In 1964 academician of the Academy of Sciences of BSSR Vladimir Sprindžuk, who was a pupil of academician J. Kubilius, solved the well-known Mahler’s conjecture on the measure of the set of S-numbers under Mahler’s classification, thus becoming the founder of the Belarusian academic school of number theory in 1962.