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In the first chapters we studied approximation to real numbers by rationals. We now take up approximation to real numbers by algebraic numbers. This is quite different from the questions e.g. considered in Chapter V on approximation to algebraic numbers by rationals.
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(1980). Approximation By Algebraic Numbers. In: Diophantine Approximation. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38645-2_8
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