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Alan Baker


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
September 19, 1939

Died
February 04, 2018

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Alan Baker was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in Number theory, in particular those arising from transcendence theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, at age 31. His academic career started as a student of Harold Davenport, at University College London and later at Cambridge. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the fall of 1970. He is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His interests were in number theory, transcendence, logarithmic form, effective methods, Diophantine geometry and Diophantine analysis. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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A Comprehensive Course in N...

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A Concise Introduction to t...

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Transcendental Number Theory

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Logarithmic Forms and Dioph...

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New Advances in Transcenden...

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Transcendence theory, advan...

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