Other contributions were made by Laguerre and Chebyshev . Padé's doctoral supervisor Hermite had used approximants and continued fractions in his work of 1873 on proving the transcendence of e.
Iba pang mga kontribusyon na ginawa ng Laguerre at Chebyshev. Padé ng doktor superbisor Hermite had ginamit approximants at patuloy na fractions sa kanyang trabaho ng 1873 sa proving ang transendensiya ng e.