====== Schanuel's conjecture ====== In the mid 1960s American mathematician Stephen Schanuel devised a complex mathematical conjecture regarding the 'transcendence degree' of certain 'field extensions' of the rational numbers. Formally stated : >Given any //n// complex numbers z1, ..., z//n// that are linearly independent over the rational numbers Q, the field extension Q (//z//1, ..., //z//n, //e//z1 , ..., //e//zn) has transcendence degree at least //n// over Q\\ >Source :[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schanuel%27s_conjecture|Wikipedia]] At present, the conjecture has neither been proved or disproved.\\ If it //is// eventually proved, it could have profound implications for exploring the nature of π and the natural logarithm //e//.