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Springer, 1987. — 376 p.Proceedings, Lancut 1985One of the main purposes of the Lancut Conference was the direct exchange of experiences and results between specialists in rational approximation who have not had any occasion to meet until now. At the first European meetings in Marseille -Toulon (1975), Lille (1978), Antwerp (1979), Amsterdam (1980), Bad Honnef (1983), Bar le Duc (1984), Segovia (1985), Marseille(1985) there were only a few participants from Poland. The first French -Polish meeting on rational approximation at Warsaw, took place in June 1981. The proof of the need for such meetings as that of Lancut, for exemple, is the constatation made by Ukrainian mathematicians that some of their results obtained more than ten years before, though published in a journal little known in the West, were rediscovered in 1985.