Ferdinand von Lindemann

Ferdinand von Lindemann
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann
Born	(1852-04-12)12 April 1852 Hannover, German Confederation
Died	6 March 1939(1939-03-06) (aged 86) Munich, Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Known for	Proving π to be a transcendental number Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Munich, University of Freiburg
Doctoral advisor	C. Felix Klein[1]
Doctoral students	Emil Hilb David Hilbert Martin Kutta Alfred Loewy Hermann Minkowski Oskar Perron Arthur Rosenthal Arnold Sommerfeld Heinrich Wieleitner

Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (12 April 1852 – 6 March 1939) was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficients.