A Diophantine generalisation of Fourier's irrationality trick
We revisit Fourier's method for proving the irrationality of e and generalise it into a unified Diophantine framework, which applies to a broad class of series with bounded or mildly growing integer numerators, and suitably growing, divisible denominators. Using integer linear forms, we establish a general criterion that recovers classical irrationality results while also generating new ones within a single structural approach.
Authors
- Chandan Chattopadhyay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0394-9146)
- Archan Chattopadhyay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4132-4688)
Institutions
- Narasinha Dutt College (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Mathematical Gazette
- Published
- 2026-10-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00255572.2026.2748847
- Primary Topic
- Analytic Number Theory Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00