TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBER THEORY ALAN BAKER F.R:s. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESSJ Published by the 8yndion of the Cambridge Univorsity Pross Bentloy Houso, 200 Exton Rond, London NW1 2DB American Branch: 32 East 57th Stroot, New York, N.Y, 10022 © Cambridgo Uni rity Pross 1975 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 7482591 ISBN: 0 621 20461 5 First published 1975 Printed in Great Britain at the Univorsity Printing House, Cambridge (Euan Phillips, University Printer)CONTENTS Preface The origins 1 Liouville’s theorem 2 Transcendence of e 3 Lindemann’s theorem Linear forms in logarithms Introduction Corollaries Notation The auxiliary function Proof of main theorem ar Whe Lower bounds for linear forms 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 3 The auxiliary function 4 Proof of main theorem Diophantine equations Introduction The Thue equation The hyperelliptic equation Curves of genus 1 Quantitative bounds Class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields Introduction L-functions Limit formula Class number 1 Class number 2 ar Oye ar Wh page