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Diophantine approximation with almost-primes and sums of two squares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Glyn Harman
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Department of Pure Mathematics, University College, P.O. Box 78, Cardiff, CF1 1XL
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Suppose that θ is a positive irrational number and α is an arbitrary real number. Then Kronecker's Theorem in diophantine approximation (Theorem 440 of [7[) can be stated as follows.

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Copyright © University College London 1985

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