Hermite, Charles. “Sur la fonction exponentielle,” WITH “Sur la fonction exponentielle (Suite), ” AND WITH “Sur la fonction exponentielle (Suite)”, AND FINALLY “Sur la fonction exponentielle”. A four-part paper, complete, being in weekly issues of Comptes Rendus…, all found in volume 77 (#s 1,2,4 and 5) on pages 18-24, 74-79, 226-233, and 285-293. All are disbound but complete weekly issues from this journal. GOOD condition. $500
- Stated simply and elegantly in Wolfram’s MathWorld, “Hermite’s theorem: e is transcendental”,
- “Theorem. (Hermite 1873). The number e, the base of natural logarithms, is transcendental.”
- See: Scharlau and Opolka, From Fermat to Minkowski, Lectures on the Theory of Numbers and Its Historical Development, Springer, 1984; the chapter “From Hermite to Minkowski”.
- “[1873] Charles Hermite…proves that the base of the natural logarithms, e = 2.718… is transcendental.”–Parkinson, Breakthroughs, p. 383.