I am not number theorist, forgive me if this is a stupid question. 


Recently I was curious about the ideas behind the transcendence of $\log 2$. 


For the number $e$, It seems that the transcendence can be obtained by a argument of fast convergence of the Taylor expansion but the same ideas do not apply to $\log 2$. Talking with number theorists I got an explanation based on the results of Baker. Unfortunately this person can not point me towards a survey or a paper discussing the ideas behind this transcendence so I come here to ask: 


*What are the ideas behind the transcendence of this number?* 


Any text (paper,book, blog) suitable for non number theorists is also welcome as an answer. 



Transcendence of $\log 2$
This follows from the [Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindemann%E2%80%93Weierstrass_theorem). There is a sketch of a proof and several references at the Wikipedia article.


