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Before we consider Gelfond’s and Schneider’s complete solutions to Hilbert’s seventh problem let’s look back and see what common elements we can find in Fourier’s demonstration of the irrationality of e, the Hermite/Hurwitz demonstration of the transcendence of e, and Gelfond’s proof of the transcendence of e π.
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Tubbs, R. (2016). Gelfond’s solution. In: Hilbert's Seventh Problem. HBA Lecture Notes in Mathematics(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2645-4_4
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