Dear WW Friends, This concerns my Research Announcement dated 4/1/97. I got two kinds of reactions: 1) Congratulations on having proved that e+pi and e*pi are transcendental. 2) Allegations that the paper is erroneous and is an April Fool's Joke. Both are wrong! A careful reading of the paper would reveal that I did not once claim to have proven that e+pi and e*pi are not algebraic. All I claimed was that I made a spectacular deduction: ref. [G] and ref. [H] IMPLY that e*pi and e+pi are transcendental Since Hermite has impecable credentials, this raises the suspicion that perhaps [G] is erroneous. You are welcome to look up ref. [G], and see for yourself. (I did make two minor errors: E. G. Goodwin should be E. J. Goodwin, and 1893 should be 1894 (thanks, Dick Askey!)) -Doron P.S. Edward J. Goodwin is the same guy from Indiana (that Beckman, in his Pi book, renamed Edwin Goodman), I was reminded of him from ilan Vardi's recent article in his webpage http://www.oxy.edu/~ilan/home.html where Goodwin's statement contains the fact that his astounding discoveries were published in the Amer. Math. Monthly, `the leading exponent of math in the US'. To my surprise, this was indeed the case. with the mild disclaimer `published by request of the author'.