Transcendental Numbers: e, pi

Math Online Tom Circle

The French Mathematician and Physicist Joseph Fourier proved
e is irrational,

Another French mathematician Charles Hermite went further: e belongs to another mathematical world:
e is transcendental.

Hermite’s German student Lindermann followed the same method, proved:
pi is also transcendental.

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Author: tomcircle

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