Talk:Roger Apéry

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Better source[edit]

I've found a better source^[1] than the one given in the article^[2] for the March 1979 article by Alfred van der Poorten "A proof that Euler missed ... Apéry's proof of the irrationality of ζ(3)". The existing one is to a web-page copy of the original journal article, but the encoding is defective, since no common encoding correctly displays, for example, the symbol "ε". The suggested replacement is a PDF file whose 9 pages contain image copies of the original journal article's pages 195-203; as such, certain symbols such as "ε" are rendered unambiguously and quite clearly.

But before replacing the source, I decided to check:

whether there's an archived copy of the PDF file, in case that disappears – there is^[3]; and
whether I can find the original article itself – I still need to complete this step.

For the moment, I'm just documenting those references here. yoyo (talk) 12:55, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, the original^[4] is behind a paywall :-(. yoyo (talk) 13:00, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And Unpaywall^[5] tells me that it "can't find any legal open access version" of the paper. Does this mean that the copies I've found aren't legal? yoyo (talk) 02:11, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

Village[edit]

There is a village called Aperi in a Greek island. 2A00:23C4:79CD:B301:B0B8:B422:9C18:DADE (talk) 12:25, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Roger Aperi's mother was a Fleming whose name was translated into French. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:79CD:B301:B0B8:B422:9C18:DADE (talk) 12:28, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The island is Karpathos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:79CD:B301:B0B8:B422:9C18:DADE (talk) 12:32, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://pracownicy.uksw.edu.pl/mwolf/Poorten_MI_195_0.pdf

[2] ttp://www.ega-math.narod.ru/Apery1.htm

[3] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20170929093144/http://pracownicy.uksw.edu.pl/mwolf/Poorten_MI_195_0.pdf

[4] ttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03028234

[5] ttp://unpaywall.org/welcome

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