Transcendental equation

A transcendental equation is an equation containing a transcendental function of the variable(s) being solved for. Such equations often do not have closed-form solutions. Examples include:
Solvable transcendental equations.
Equations, where the variable to be solved for, appears only once, as an argument to the transcendental function, are easily solvable with inverse functions; similarly, if the equation can be factored or transformed to such a case:
Some can be solved because they are compositions of algebraic functions with transcendental functions.
But most equations where the variable appears both as an argument to a transcendental function and elsewhere in the equation are not solvable in closed form, or have only trivial solutions.
Approximate solutions.
Approximate numerical solutions to transcendental equations can be found using numerical, analytical approximations, or graphical methods. 
Numerical methods for solving arbitrary equations are called root-finding algorithms.
In some cases, the equation can be well approximated using Taylor series near the zero. For example, for formula_2, the solutions of formula_3 are approximately those of formula_4, namely formula_5 and formula_6.
For a graphical solution, one method is to set each side of a single variable transcendental equation equal to a dependent variable and plot the two graphs, using their intersecting points to find solutions.
In some cases, special functions can be used to write the solutions to transcendental equations in closed form. In particular, formula_7 has a solution in terms of the Lambert W function.
Other solutions.
The difficulties arising at the solution of the transcendental systems of high-order equations were overcome by Vladimir Varyukhin by means of the “separation” of the unknowns, at which the determination of unknowns is reduced to the solution of algebraic equations