Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Faculty of Science
University of Calgary
Transcendence of pi
Submitted by jlongwor on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 4:32pm.
Nov 17 2009 - 10:00am
Nov 17 2009 - 10:50am
Speaker:
Philippe Dovoedo
Location:
MS 427In this talk, we are concerned with the transcendence, or in other words the nonalgebraic nature, of pi. We begin by giving some definitions. We then draw attention to the overwhelming preponderance of transcendental numbers over algebraic numbers. Next, we give Lindemann's proof (1882) of the transcendence of pi. We finish with recent developments in transcendence theory.