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Book review of: D. Angell, Irrationality and transcendence in number theory. (English) Zbl 1522.00113

Review of [Zbl 1493.11001].

MSC:

00A17 External book reviews
11-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to number theory
11-03 History of number theory
01A05 General histories, source books
11Jxx Diophantine approximation, transcendental number theory

Citations:

Zbl 1493.11001
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[1] Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler. Proofs from the book. Springer, 2009. · Zbl 1098.00001
[2] Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. Verallgemeinerung eines Satzes aus der Lehre von den Kettenbrüchen nebst einigen Anwendungen auf die Theorie der Zahlen. Bericht über die Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften (1842), 93-95.
[3] Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Project Gutenberg, 2019. Available online at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/834/834-h/834-h.htm.
[4] Edward Dunne and Mark McConnell. Pianos and Continued Fractions. Math. Mag. 72:2 (1999), 274-284. · Zbl 1022.00006
[5] Godfrey Harold Hardy. A Mathematician’s Apology, with a foreword by C. P. Snow. Cambridge University Press, 1967. · Zbl 0146.24101
[6] David Richeson. Tales of Impossibility. Princeton University Press, 2019. · Zbl 1429.01001
[7] Benoît Rittaud and Albrecht Heeffer. The pigeonhole principle: two centuries before Dirichlet. Math. Intel. 36:2 (2014), 27-29. · Zbl 1302.01013
[8] Andrew Simoson. The Morphology of \(\mathbb{Z} [\sqrt{10}]\). Math. Gazette 103:558 (November 2019), 442-460. · Zbl 1504.11115
[9] Andrew Simoson. Exploring Continued Fractions: From the Integers to Solar Eclipses. AMS, 2019. · Zbl 1496.11009
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