Recurrent Proofs of the Irrationality of Certain Trigonometric Values

DOI10.4169/000298910X480838MaRDI QIDQ3060164zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Li Zhou, Lubomir P. Markov

Publication date 1 December 2010

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1933

zbMATH Keywords

irrationalitytrigonometric values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72)

Abstract: We use recurrences of integrals to give new and elementary proofs of the irrationality of pi, tan(r) for all nonzero rational r, and cos(r) for all nonzero rational r^2. Immediate consequences to other values of the elementary transcendental functions are also discussed.

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