The main theme of this book is the theory of heights as they appear in
various guises. This includes a large body of results on Mahlers measure
of the height of a polynomial. The authors'approach is very down to
earth as they cover the rationals, assuming no prior knowledge of
elliptic curves. The chapters include examples and particular
computations, with all special calculation included so as to be
self-contained. The authors devote space to discussing Mahlers measure
and to giving some convincing and original examples to explain this
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of heights as it appears in various guises. To this §End.txt.Int.:, it
examines the results of Mahlers measure of the height of a polynomial,
which have never before appeared in book form. The authors take a
down-to-earth approach that includes convincing and original examples.
The book uncovers new and interesting connections between number theory
and dynamics and will be interesting to researchers in both number
theory and nonlinear dynamics.