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In his famous address delivered before the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, David Hilbert outlined 23 open questions that he believed to be the most important mathematical problems that remained unsolved at the dawn of the new century. Hilbert described his 7th problem as follows.
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Burger, E.B., Tubbs, R. (2004). 2.6651441426902251886502972498…. In: Making Transcendence Transparent. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4114-8_6
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