Abstract

The dissertation consists of three articles in which irrationality measures for some values of certain special cases of the Gauss hypergeometric function are considered in both archimedean and non-archimedean metrics.

The first presents a general result and a divisibility criterion for certain products of binomial coefficients upon which the sharpenings of the general result in special cases rely. The paper also provides an improvement concerning th e values of the logarithmic function. The second paper includes two other special cases, the first of which gives irrationality measures for some values of the arctan function, for example, and the second concerns values of the binomial function. All the results of the first two papers are effective, but no computation of the constants for explicit presentation is carried out. This task is fulfilled in the third article for logarithmic and binomial cases. The results of the latter case are applied to some Diophantine equations.