Diophantine approximations of \(\log 2\) and other logarithms (Q2517986)

The paper deals with a new method concerning the estimation of the measure of irrationality for the numbers \(\log 2\) and \(\log\frac 53\). The author also demonstrates the estimation for approximations to the number \(\log 2\) by numbers from the field \(\mathbb Q(\sqrt 2)\). Let \(k\) be a positive integer. Then the estimation for approximations to the number \(\log\frac{\sqrt{4k^2+1}-1}{2k}\) by numbers from the field \(\mathbb Q(\sqrt{4k^2+1})\) is included. The proofs are in the spirit of Beukers' proof of the irrationality of \(\zeta (3)\).