Reprint: On the decimal expansion of certain irrational numbers (1937)

DOI10.4171/DMS/8/26MaRDI QIDQ1996501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kurt Mahler

Publication date 5 March 2021

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/dms/8/26

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History of number theory (11-03) Transcendence (general theory) (11J81) Transcendence theory of other special functions (11J91)

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Summary: Let \((n)_q\) denote the base-\(q\) expansion of the integer \(n\). The Champernowne number to the base \(q\) is the concatenation of the base-\(q\) expansions of the positive integers after a radix point; that is, the number \[0.(1)_q(2)_q(3)_q\cdots(n)_q\cdots. \] In this paper, Mahler shows that each of these numbers is transcendental, but is not a Liouville number. Reprint of the author's paper [Mathematica B, Zutphen 6, 22--36 (1937; Zbl 0018.11102; JFM 63.0155.03)].

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