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Originally Posted by Standback
I may or may not have quoted this before on this forum.
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You may or may not have, but I've linked to Kevin Wald's excellent page in a
newspost before. I tried to work through the proof once when I was doing a project on transcendental numbers, but couldn't follow one step (I forget which). Fortunately, I didn't need it -- it's much easier to prove that
e to a rational power is transcendental, and then get pi's transcendence as a corollary since
eiπ = -1.
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