Kunganzima kakhulu ukufumanisa okokuba ingaba inani elithile li-transcendental na okanye hayi. I-transcendental number nganye ikwayi-irrational number. Abantu bokuqala abaqaphela okokuba kukho ii-transcendental numbers yaba ngu-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz no-Leonhard Euler. Umntu wokuqala owa-prova okokuba kukho ii-transcendental numbers yaba ngu-Joseph Liouville. Waakwenza oku ngo-1844.