Mémoires sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendantes, circulaires et logarithmiques
Year of Conception: June 1761
Year of Writing: July 1767
Year of Publication: 1761/1768
Subject: Trigonometry, Irrationality of pi
Publication: Mémoires sur quelques propriétés remarquables des quantités transcendantes, circulaires et logarithmiques. Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, année 1761/1768, 265-322.(1)
Description:
Lambert's famous memoir that proves
that pi cannot be expressed as a finite ratio of two integers. The
results in the memoir are actually more general, and at the end, a
tentative sketch to prove the transcendence of pi is provided for.
Reviews: GGA 1769, 989(4)