Introduction to Liouville Numbers

Adam Grabowski, and Artur Korniłowicz. "Introduction to Liouville Numbers." Formalized Mathematics 25.1 (2017): 39-48. <http://eudml.org/doc/288115>.

@article{AdamGrabowski2017,
abstract = {The article defines Liouville numbers, originally introduced by Joseph Liouville in 1844 [17] as an example of an object which can be approximated “quite closely” by a sequence of rational numbers. A real number x is a Liouville number iff for every positive integer n, there exist integers p and q such that q > 1 and [...] It is easy to show that all Liouville numbers are irrational. Liouville constant, which is also defined formally, is the first transcendental (not algebraic) number. It is defined in Section 6 quite generally as the sum [...] for a finite sequence \{ak\}k∈ℕ and b ∈ ℕ. Based on this definition, we also introduced the so-called Liouville number as [...] substituting in the definition of L(ak, b) the constant sequence of 1’s and b = 10. Another important examples of transcendental numbers are e and π [7], [13], [6]. At the end, we show that the construction of an arbitrary Lioville constant satisfies the properties of a Liouville number [12], [1]. We show additionally, that the set of all Liouville numbers is infinite, opening the next item from Abad and Abad’s list of “Top 100 Theorems”. We show also some preliminary constructions linking real sequences and finite sequences, where summing formulas are involved. In the Mizar [14] proof, we follow closely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville\_number. The aim is to show that all Liouville numbers are transcendental.},
author = {Adam Grabowski, Artur Korniłowicz},
journal = {Formalized Mathematics},
keywords = {Liouville number; Diophantine approximation; transcendental number; Liouville constant},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
pages = {39-48},
title = {Introduction to Liouville Numbers},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/288115},
volume = {25},
year = {2017},
}

TY - JOUR
AU - Adam Grabowski
AU - Artur Korniłowicz
TI - Introduction to Liouville Numbers
JO - Formalized Mathematics
PY - 2017
VL - 25
IS - 1
SP - 39
EP - 48
AB - The article defines Liouville numbers, originally introduced by Joseph Liouville in 1844 [17] as an example of an object which can be approximated “quite closely” by a sequence of rational numbers. A real number x is a Liouville number iff for every positive integer n, there exist integers p and q such that q > 1 and [...] It is easy to show that all Liouville numbers are irrational. Liouville constant, which is also defined formally, is the first transcendental (not algebraic) number. It is defined in Section 6 quite generally as the sum [...] for a finite sequence {ak}k∈ℕ and b ∈ ℕ. Based on this definition, we also introduced the so-called Liouville number as [...] substituting in the definition of L(ak, b) the constant sequence of 1’s and b = 10. Another important examples of transcendental numbers are e and π [7], [13], [6]. At the end, we show that the construction of an arbitrary Lioville constant satisfies the properties of a Liouville number [12], [1]. We show additionally, that the set of all Liouville numbers is infinite, opening the next item from Abad and Abad’s list of “Top 100 Theorems”. We show also some preliminary constructions linking real sequences and finite sequences, where summing formulas are involved. In the Mizar [14] proof, we follow closely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville_number. The aim is to show that all Liouville numbers are transcendental.
LA - eng
KW - Liouville number; Diophantine approximation; transcendental number; Liouville constant
UR - http://eudml.org/doc/288115
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