transcendental number
A transcendental number is a complex number
that is not an algebraic number
.That is, it is a complex number that is transcendental over (or, equivalently, over ).
Well known transcendental numbers include and (the base of natural logarithms).
Cantor showed that, in a sense,“almost all” complex numbers are transcendental:there are uncountably many complex numbers, butonly countably many algebraic numbers (http://planetmath.org/AlgebraicNumbersAreCountable).