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What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
Leopold Kronecker
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Leopold Kronecker
Age: 68 †
Born: 1823
Born: December 7
Died: 1891
Died: December 29
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