In 1962, Mahler defined a measure for integer polynomials in several variables as the logarithmic integral over the torus. Many results exist about the values taken by the measure but many unsolved problems remain. In one variable, it is possible to express the measure as an effective limit of Riemann sums. We show that the same is true in several variables, using a non-obvious parametrisation of the torus together with Baker's Theorem on linear forms in logarithms of algebraic numbers.

The methods for generating a polynomial Bézier approximation of degree n − 1 to an nth degree Bézier curve, and error analysis, are presented. The methods are based on observations of the geometric properties of Bézier curves. The approximation agrees at the two endpoints up to a preselected smoothness order. The methods allow a detailed error analysis, providing a priori bounds of the point-wise approximation error. The error analysis for other authors’ methods is also presented.

Some structure theorems for totally disconnected groups are described. These theorems produce a certain positive integer valued function, called the scale function, on each totally disconnected group. The scale function has properties connected to the structure of the group and can be used to prove some conjectures of Hofmann and Mukherjea.

The aim of this paper is to give a new precise formula for h(n, A), where A is a finite non-abelian simple group, h(n, A) is the maximum number such that Ah(n, A) can ke generated by n elements, and n ≥ 2. P. Hall gave a formula for h(n, A) in terms of the Möbius function of the subgroup lattice of A; the new formula involves a concept called cospread associated with that of spread as explained in Brenner and Wiegold (1975).

An area-diameter relation and an area-width relation for plane lattice-point-free-convex bodies is proved. This implies relations on covering sets with respect to general lattices.

Let QT = ω x (0, T), where ω is a bounded domain in ℝn (n ≥ 3) having the cone property and T is a positive real number; let Y be a nonempty, closed connected and locally connected subset of ℝh; let f be a real-valued function defined in QT × ℝh × ℝnh × Y; let ℒ be a linear, second order, parabolic operator. In this paper we establish the existence of strong solutions (n + 2 ≤ p < + ∞) to the implicit parabolic differential equation

with the homogeneus Cauchy-Dirichlet conditions where u = (u1, u2, …, uh), Dxu = (Dxu1, Dxu2, …, Dxuh), Lu = (ℒu1, ℒu2, … ℒuh).

We establish a link between the two characterizations, independently obtained in 1991 by Puchs and Robson, of complete matrix rings in terms of the existence of nilpotent elements.

Our main result shows that a conformal mapping of hyperbolic n-space into another Riemannian manifold with scalar curvature bounded above by −n(n − 1) is necessarily distance decreasing. This is a generalisation of Ahlfors' version of the Schwarz-Pick lemma to Riemannian Geometry.

The Splitting Theorem says that any given Hamel basis for a (Hausdorff) barrelled space E determines topologically complementary subspaces Ec and ED, and that Ec is flat, that is, contains no proper dense subspace. By use of this device it was shown that if E is non-flat it must contain a dense subspace of codimension at least ℵ0; here we maximally increase the estimate to ℵ1 under the assumption that the dominating cardinal ∂ equals ℵ1 [strictly weaker than the Continuum Hypothesis (CH)]. A related assumption strictly weaker than the Generalised CH allows us to prove that ED is fit, that is, contains a dense subspace whose codimension in ED is dim (ED), the largest imaginable. Thus the two components are extreme opposites, and E itself is fit if and only if dim (ED) ≥ dim (Ec), in which case there is a choice of basis for which ED = E. Morover, E is non-flat (if and) only if the codimension of E′ is at least in E*. These results ensure latitude in the search for certain subspaces of E* transverse to E′, as in the barrelled countable enlargement (BCE) problem, and show that every non-flat GM-space has a BCE.