New math post on my blog: In simple English, what does it mean to be transcendental? https://blog.plover.com/math/se/transcendental.html
@christianp Thank you!
@mjd I remember upvoting that answer in math.SE when it first appeared. You being proud of it is more than justified!
@tpfto Thanks for your kind words!
@mjd This is fabulous!
Well done ... lovely.
@ColinTheMathmo Thank you!
@mjd Nice! One additionally nice thing about it is that you can give a simpler set of "game moves" that define the boundary between rational and irrational numbers. Not that people generally have a hard time understanding rational numbers, but it shows the familial relation between "rational" and "algebraic" better than the usual definition does.
@jsiehler Yes, true. I did mention that in a followup comment on the original SE post. I wasn't sure it would be a good idea to include it in the main article, but a few people have suggested that I should have. That also led to one of my all-time favorite SE comments: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1686156/in-simple-english-what-does-it-mean-to-be-transcendental#comment3463216_1686299
@mjd
Really great answer and a blog post. It is really hard to write up a plain english explanation once you start to look from the lens of an expert.
@ashwinvis Thanks for your kind words!
@mjd that's a really good explanation! I'm sure it'll affect my answer next time I'm asked to give a layman's explanation of something in maths