Re: [math-fun] Question about uniform distribution (mod 1) of a sequence

P.S. This reminder by Keith led me to review that April 1975 column (which I have on my computer from a CD I got from the MAA). Fun! —Dan On Mar 2, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

I first heard of it in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the April 1975 Scientific American, in which he claimed that exp(pi*sqrt(163)) had recently been proven to be an integer.