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The board of programme changes informed us that R. Apery (Caen) would speak Thursday, 14.00 “Sur l’irrationalité de ζ(3).” Though there had been earlier rumours of his claiming a proof, scepticism was general. The lecture tended to strengthen this view to rank disbelief. Those who listened casually, or who were afflicted with being non-Francophone, appeared to hear only a sequence of unlikely assertions.
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van der Poorten, A. (2004). A Proof that Euler Missed .... In: Pi: A Source Book. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4217-6_49
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