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 Alan Baker
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| Born | 19 August 1939 London, England |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University College London University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Davenport |
| Doctoral students | John Coates Roger Heath-Brown David Masser Yuval Flicker |
| Known for | Number theory Diophantine equations |
| Notable awards | Fields Medal (1970) Adams Prize (1972) |
Alan Baker, FRS (born on 19 August 1939) is an English mathematician. He was born in London. He is 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 is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
His interests are:
- Number theory
- Transcendence
- Logarithmic forms
- Effective methods
- Diophantine geometry
- Diophantine analysis
His students include John Coates, David Masser, Roger Heath-Brown, Yuval Flicker, and Cameron Stewart.
Miscellaneous
- Fellow Royal Society, Fellow Indian National Science Academy
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alan Baker (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Baker_Alan.html.
- Alan Baker (mathematician) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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