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Galois Theory, 4th Edition
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Galois Theory, 4th Edition

by Ian Nicholas Stewart
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
344 pages
10h 18m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Galois Theory, 4th Edition
Chapter 24
Transcendental Numbers
Our discussion of the three geometric problems of antiquity—trisecting the angle,
duplicating the cube, and squaring the circle—left one key fact unproved. To com-
plete the proof of the impossibility of squaring the circle by a ruler-and-compass
construction, crowning three thousand years of mathematical effort, we must prove
that π is transcendental over Q. (In this chapter the word ‘transcendental’ will be
understood to mean transcendental over Q.) The proof we give is analytic, which
should not really be surprising since π is best defined analytically. The techniques
involve symmetric polynomials, integration, differentiation, ...
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