Irrational Numbers

Klappentext Here Ivan Niven gives a wholly self-contained! masterful exposition of some central results on irrational! transcendental! and normal numbers. He gives a complete treatment by elementary methods of the irrationality of the exponential! logarithmic! and trigonometric functions with rational arguments. The last third of the monograph treats normal and transcendental numbers! including the Lindemann theorem! and the Gelfond-Schneider theorem. Notes are provided at the end of each chapter citing the main sources used by the author and suggesting further reading. Zusammenfassung Ivan Niven provides a masterful exposition of some central results on irrational! transcendental! and normal numbers.

Product details

• Authors: Ivan Niven
• Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2005
• EAN: 9780883850381
• ISBN: 978-0-88385-038-1
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Carus Mathematical Monographs; Carus Mathematical Monographs
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics