The word transcendental has two meanings. The first: describes something of or relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm. In other words describing something that goes beyond what you can experience with just your 5 senses. In English class you might hear about two authors that are referred to as transcendentalists; Henry Thoreau and William Emerson. “Transcendentalist are people who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.” (http://www.ushistory.org/us/26f.asp). Emerson is known as the father of the New Thought movement. This was a spiritual movement around the idea that God is everywhere. Thoreau is known for his book Walden, which was about simple living in a natural environment.
The second meaning is mathematical and it is a number that is not an algebraic number (pi, e, etc.).
“A transcendental function is a function that does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves roots of polynomials.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_function). So why is this considered transcendental? These functions go beyond the finite, so in other words they are something relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm. How? Well, it’s because these functions transcend algebra in the way that they can’t be expressed in a finite sequence of numbers and equations. These functions have to be considered in a dimensionless world, if they transcend our dimensions than it’s possible.
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The second meaning is mathematical and it is a number that is not an algebraic number (pi, e, etc.).
“A transcendental function is a function that does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves roots of polynomials.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_function). So why is this considered transcendental? These functions go beyond the finite, so in other words they are something relating to a spiritual or nonphysical realm. How? Well, it’s because these functions transcend algebra in the way that they can’t be expressed in a finite sequence of numbers and equations. These functions have to be considered in a dimensionless world, if they transcend our dimensions than it’s possible.
Personally I would prefer a blog once a cycle.