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This work was funded by the University of California San Diego Research Communications Program, supported by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

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    Nathan Green

  2. Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, 252 Russell Ln, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0112, USA

    Grace Grothaus

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Green, N., Grothaus, G. Transcendere: A Visual Metaphor for Research in Transcendental Number Theory. Math Intelligencer (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-023-10272-8

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