Etymology

Gelfond's constant

Today it means: The value e^π (approximately 23.140692632779), known to be transcendental. Full definition →

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The story

After Soviet mathematician Алекса́ндр О́сипович Ге́льфонд (Alexander Osipovich Gelfond).

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