Given non-empty subsets A and B of a metric space, let S : A → B and T : A → B be non-self mappings. Taking into account the fact that, given any element x in A, the distance between x and Sx, and the distance between x and Tx are at least d(A,B), a common best proximity point theorem affirms global minimum of both functions x → d(x, Sx) and x → d(x, Tx) by imposing a common approximate solutio...