Classical Diophantine Equations

The author had initiated a revision and translation of"Classical Diophantine Equations" prior to his death.Given the rapid advances in transcendence theory anddiophantine approximation over recent years, one might fearthat the present work, originally published in Russian in1982, is mostly superseded. That is not so. A certain amountof updating had been prepared by the author himself beforehis untimely death. Some further revision was prepared byclose colleagues.The first seven chapters provide