You're invited to Wikipedia Loves Libraries, a program of events at libraries and archives across North America around October

2011.

[Hide]

GelfondSchneider constant
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search The GelfondSchneider constant is

which was proved to be a transcendental number by Rodion Kuzmin in 1930.[1] In 1934, Aleksandr Gelfond proved the more general GelfondSchneider theorem,[2] which solved the part of Hilbert's seventh problem described below.

Contents

1 Properties 2 Hilbert's seventh problem 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Properties
The square root of the GelfondSchneider constant is the transcendental number

which illustrates that an irrational number to the power of an irrational number can sometimes produce a rational number, since this number raised to the power of 2 is equal to 2. A much simpler non-constructive proof that "an irrational to an irrational power may be rational" uses this same constant, and proceeds as follows: either is rational, which proves the theorem, or it is irrational (as it turns out to be), and then is an irrational to an irrational power that is rational, which proves the theorem.

[edit] Hilbert's seventh problem

Main article: Hilbert's seventh problem Part of the seventh of Hilbert's twenty three problems posed in 1900 was to prove (or find a counterexample to the claim) that ab is always transcendental for algebraic a 0, 1 and irrational algebraic b. In the address he gave two explicit examples, one of them being the GelfondSchneider constant 22. In 1919, he gave a lecture on number theory and spoke of three conjectures: the Riemann hypothesis, Fermat's Last Theorem, and the transcendence of 22. He mentioned to the audience that he didn't expect anyone in the hall to live long enough to see a proof of this final result.[3] But the proof of this number's transcendence was published by Kuzmin in 1930,[1] well within Hilbert's own lifetime. Namely, Kuzmin proved the case where the exponent b is a real quadratic irrational, which was later extended to an arbitrary algebraic irrational b by Gelfond.

[edit] See also

Gelfond's constant Hilbert number

[edit] References
1. ^ a b R. O. Kuzmin (1930). "On a new class of transcendental numbers". Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Ser. matem. 7: 585597. 2. ^ Aleksandr Gelfond (1934). "Sur le septime Problme de Hilbert". Bull. Acad. Sci. URSS Leningrade 7: 623634. 3. ^ David Hilbert, Natur und mathematisches Erkennen: Vorlesungen, gehalten 1919 1920.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gelfond%E2%80%93Schneider_constant&ol did=430425874" View page ratings

Rate this page

What's this? Trustworthy Objective Complete

Well-written I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional) Submit ratings Saved successfully Your ratings have not been submitted yet Categories: Transcendental numbers Mathematical constants
Personal tools

Log in / create account

Namespaces

Article Discussion

Variants Views

Read Edit View history

Actions Search

Search

Navigation

Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia

Interaction

Help

About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia

Toolbox

What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Cite this page Rate this page

Print/export

Create a book Download as PDF Printable version

Languages

Espaol Franais Lumbaart Suomi This page was last modified on 22 May 2011 at 23:19. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization. Contact us Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Mobile view

Frnvaro, autosvar: Letters@USNews.com What is this? Bell Curve in the Genome. What are the numbers in the genome which attach to Iq? Enough. Thank you. 1 recipients CC: recipientsYou More BCC: recipientsYou Hide Details FROM:

Barbro Jonsson

TO:

Mark Hilbert

Message flagged Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:46 PM Message body

Your mail has been received. I'm out of the office, back on Friday October 14. I will read your message when I return. Best Regards , Ms Barbro Jonsson Head of Administration The Nobel Foundation

If not mistaken, what does this offer? Thank you.