?? "putting some transcendental structure on the complex numbers and seeing what sort of (??"finitary" ?? ...) structure this puts on the algebraic numbers ..." .... ????? .....

?? schanuel's conjecture ... ???? ..... ?? does this say anything at all interesting about cyclotomic numbers ... ????? .....

?? exponential function evaluated at rational number .... ????

???exponential function evaluated at algebraic number ... ???? .....

?? hmmm, wpa on schanuel's conjecture _does_ say that it's implied by some motivic thing ... ?? ...