From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In mathematics, Apéry's theorem is a result in number theory that states the Apéry's constant ζ(3) is irrational. That is, the number ζ ( 3 ) = ∑ n = 1 ∞ 1 n 3 = 1 1 3 + 1 2 3 + 1 3 3 + ⋯ = 1.2020569 … {\displaystyle \zeta (3)=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{n^{3}}}={\frac {1}{1^{3}}}+{\frac {1}{2^{3}}}+{\frac {1}{3^{3}}}+\cdots =1.2020569\ldots } cannot be written as a fraction p / q {\displaystyle p/q} where p and q are integers. The theorem is named after Roger Apéry. The special values of the Riemann zeta function…