Early Transcendence Results from Nineteenth Century

Saradha Natarajan () and Ravindranathan Thangadurai
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Saradha Natarajan: University of Mumbai, DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences
Ravindranathan Thangadurai: Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 2 in Pillars of Transcendental Number Theory, 2020, pp 21-33 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The transcendental number theory was originated by Liouville in 1844 when he showed a method to construct transcendental numbers. For instance, $$\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\frac{1}{2^{n!}}$$is transcendental.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4155-1_2

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