A hypertranscendental function or transcendentally transcendental function is an analytic function which is not the solution of an algebraic differential equation with coefficients in Z (the integers) and with algebraic initial conditions. All hypertranscendental functions are transcendental functions.
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History
The term 'transcendentally transcendental' was introduced by E. H. Moore in 1896; the term 'hypertranscendental' was introduced by D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi in 1914.
Definition
One standard definition (there are slight variants) defines solutions of differential equations of the form
where
Hypertranscendental functions usually arise as the solutions to functional equations, for example the gamma function.