This exploration of the relation between periods and transcendental numbers brings Baker's theory of linear forms in logarithms into its most general framework,

Leading experts explore the relation between periods and transcendental numbers, using a modern approach derived from the theory of motives.

Alan Baker's systematic account of transcendental number theory, with a new introduction and afterword explaining recent developments.

Explores the recent spectacular applications of point-counting in o-minimal structures to functional transcendence and diophantine geometry.

This book studies the large deviations for empirical measures and vector-valued additive functionals of Markov chains with general state space. Under suitable r