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Transcendence

Posted Apr22-09 at 05:59 PM by ramsey2879

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Lastly, 221/2 being transcendental - are there any such symbolic representations of Pi or ex?

Danke, Kueffner
Other than the symbols themselves, there is no exact representation of Pi or e^x (in general) other than those infinite series that are known to converge thereto, or possibly in terms of other transcendental numbers.
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Explanation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorm

Posted Oct21-08 at 08:41 AM by ramsey2879
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This blog is dedicated to an explanation of the proof of Fermats theorm so that a college freshman in math or even a senior in high school who well schooled in algebra could understand it.

I owe a debt to my friend Richard Van Elberg whose questions about the proof lead me to think of how it could be better explained. To to this I will introduce some basic laws of Arithmetic and how those can be extended to ordered pairs with the following example. "Z" as used below is...
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