Continued fractions, multidimensional diophantine approximations and applications (Q1975053)

The author gives a review (without proofs, being strongly connected with his own work in the last decade), on some interesting general (mainly multidimensional) Diophantine results, best approximations (e.g., improvements on results of Jarnik, metric theorems, successive approximations for linear forms or results demonstrating that numbers with bounded partial quotients cannot appear in long, almost arithmetic progressions) and applications to the theory of uniform distribution, e.g. his verification of a conjecture of Kozlov on the recurrence of certain integrals (being already settled by Kozlov himself -- independently a similar result was obtained by E. A. Sidorov -- in the 2-dimensional case) for ``very smooth'' functions and recent improvements by Konyagin for ``much less smooth'' odd functions, and analogous results for vector-valued functions; but also significant counterexamples for the general case.