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Transcendental and Algebraic Numbers

work by Gelfond

Also known as: “Transtsendentnye i algebraicheskie chisla”

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In Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond
…Transtsendentnye i algebraicheskie chisla (1952; Transcendental and Algebraic Numbers). In Ischislenie konechnykh raznostey (1952; “Calculus of Finite Differences”), he summarized his approximation and interpolation studies.
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