Ferdinand von Lindemann
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Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician who proved in 1882 that π is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any nonzero polynomial with rational coefficients.
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann
Hermann Minkowski
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Hermann Minkowski was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, ETH Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian.
Ferdinand von Lindemann
…University of Königsberg. While a professor in Königsberg, Lindemann acted as supervisor for the doctoral theses of the mathematicians David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, and Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1882, Lindemann published the result for which he is best known, the transcendence of π. His methods were similar to those…
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