本书为《国外数学名著系列》丛书之一。该丛书是科学出版社组织学术界多位知名院士、专家精心筛选出来的一批基础理论类数学著作，读者对象面向数学系高年级本科生、研究生及从事数学专业理论研究的科研工作者。

本册为《数论(Ⅳ超越数影印版)65》，本书是调查的最重要的研究方向在超越数论。

This book is a survey of the most important directions of research in transcendental number theory. The central topics in this theory include proofs of irrationality and transcendence of various numbers，especially those，that arise as the values of special functions. Questions of this sort go back to ancient times. An example is the old problem of squaring the circle，which Lindemann showed to bc impossible in 1882，when hc proved that Pi is a trandental number. Euler's conjecture that the logarithm of an algebraic number to an algebraic base is transcendental was included in Hilbert's famous list of open problems; this conjecture was proved by Gel'fond and Schneider in 1934. A more recent result was Anerv's surprising proof of the irrationality of ξ(3)in 1979.

The quantitative aspects of the theory have important applications to the study of Diophantine equations and other areas of number theory. For a reader interested in different branches of number theory，this monograph provides both an overview of the central ideas and techniques of transcendental number theory，and also a guide to the most important results and references.

Notation

Introduction

 0.1 Preliminary Remarks

 0.2 Irrationality of 2

 0.3 The Number π

 0.4 Transcendental Numbers

 0.5 Approximation of Algebraic Numbers

 0.6 Transcendence Questions and Other Branches of Number Theory

 0.7 The Basic Problems Studied in Transcendental Number Theory

 0.8 Different Ways of Giving the Numbers

 0.9 Methods

Chapter 1.Approximation of Algebraic Numbers

Chapter 2.Effective Constructions in Transcendental Number Theory

Chapter 3.Hillbert's Seventh Problem

Chapter 4.Multidimensional Generalization of Hillbert's Seventh Problem

Chapter 5.Values of Analytic Functions That Satisgy Linear Differential Equations

Chapter 6.Algebraic Independence of the Values of Analytic Functions That Have an Additaon Law