See also: Lindemann
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (April 12th 1852 with Hanover - March 6th 1939) is a German Mathématicien . He passed to the posterity for his demonstration, published in 1882, of the transcendence of π, i.e. there does not exist any Polynôme not no one with rational coefficients of which π is a root.
Biography
His/her Ferdinand father teaches the modern languages with gymnasium and his/her mother is the girl of the director. The family moves then with Schwerin.
Ferdinand studies mathematics with Göttingen, Erlangen and Munich. In Erlangen, supervised by Felix Klein, it obtains a doctorate on the nonEuclidean Géométrie.
In 1882, it publishes the result which makes its celebrity: transcendence of π. Its methods are similar before to those used nine years by Charles Hermite to show that E , the natural Base of the logarithms, is transcendent. It is known that if π is transcendent, then the old and famous problem of the Quadrature of the circle using a rule and a compass cannot be solved.
While he is professor with the Université of Königsberg, Lindemann acts as supervisor for the doctoral thesis of David Hilbert.
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