Talk:Hypertranscendental number
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I am not a mathematician, and don't know much about hypertranscendentals, but Shannon's 1941 analysis of the differential analyzer (available in his Collected Papers; see p. 507) includes the phrase, "providing the functions f_k are combinations of non-hypertranscendental functions" when discussing the computational power of the D.A. This suggests that the term was in common use by then, though perhaps its definition was not yet formalized.