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From: augustss@chalmers.UUCP (Lennart Augustsson)
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Subject: Re: PI is irrational
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 23:41:49 EST
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   PI was proved irrational by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1767,
and more rigorously by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1794.

   PI was proved transcendental (i.e. non-algebraic, i.e. not the
root of an algebraic equation with a finite number of terms, whose
coefficients are rational) by F. Lindemann in 1882.

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		Lennart Augustsson
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