%0 Journal Article %A M.-B. A. Babaev %T Extremal elements and the value of the best approximation of a monotone function on $R^n$ by sums of functions of fewer variables %J Doklady Akademii Nauk %D 1982 %P 11-13 %V 265 %N 1 %I mathdoc %U http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/DAN_1982_265_1_a0/ %G ru %F DAN_1982_265_1_a0