Under an assumed algebraicity of , form the product over its conjugates; its one known vanishing factor makes the whole product zero and regroup the subset sums as , with nonzero exponents and Galois-invariant integral weights. After clearing their denominators, use . The sum of its derivatives at each is divisible by in the algebraic integers, whereas at zero its first nonzero derivative is a fixed nonzero residue for all but finitely many primes. Summing with the weights gives a nonzero rational integer. Integrating the derivative of expresses that integer as a quantity bounded by , which tends to zero. This is the contradiction.
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