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Alan Baker
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| Alan Baker | |
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| Born | August 19, 1939 London, England |
| Residence |  UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Field | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University College London University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisor | Harold Davenport |
| Notable students | John Coates Roger Heath-Brown |
| Known for | Number theory Diophantine equations |
| Notable prizes | Fields Medal (1970) Adams Prize (1972) |
Alan Baker (born on August 19, 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.
- Fellow Royal Society, Fellow Indian National Science Academy
- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Alan Baker". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Alan Baker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Ahlfors / Douglas (1936) • Schwartz / Selberg (1950) • Kodaira / Serre (1954) • Roth / Thom (1958) • Hörmander / Milnor (1962) • Atiyah / Cohen / Grothendieck / Smale (1966) • Baker / Hironaka / Novikov / Thompson (1970) • Bombieri / Mumford (1974) • Deligne / Fefferman / Margulis / Quillen (1978) • Connes / Thurston / Yau (1982) • Donaldson / Faltings / Freedman (1986) • Drinfel'd / Jones / Mori / Witten (1990) • Zelmanov / Lions / Bourgain / Yoccoz (1994) • Borcherds / Gowers / Kontsevich / McMullen (1998) • Lafforgue / Voevodsky (2002) • Okounkov / Perelman / Tao / Werner (2006) |
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| NAME | Baker, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
Categories: English mathematicians | 20th century mathematicians | Fields Medalists | Number theorists | Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge | Fellows of the Royal Society | Members of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics | People from London | 1939 births | Living people | Adams Prize recipients