Alan Baker
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| Born | August 19 1939 London, England <tr><th>Residence</th><td>Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg UK</td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td>Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British</td></tr><tr><th>Field</th><td>Mathematician</td></tr><tr><th>Institution</th><td>University of Cambridge</td></tr><tr><th>Alma Mater</th><td>University College London</br>University of Cambridge</td></tr><tr><th>Academic Advisor</th><td>Harold Davenport</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Students</th><td>John Coates</br> Roger Heath-Brown</br> David Masser</br> Yuval Flicker</td></tr><tr><th>Known for</th><td>Number theory</br>Diophantine equations</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Prizes</th><td>Fields Medal (1970)</br>Adams Prize (1972)</td></tr> |
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Alan Baker FRS (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.
[edit] Misc
- Fellow Royal Society, Fellow Indian National Science Academy
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Alan Baker". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Alan Baker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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1936: Ahlfors • Douglas || 1950: Schwartz • Selberg || 1954: Kodaira • Serre || 1958: Roth • Thom || 1962: Hörmander • Milnor || 1966: Atiyah • Cohen • Grothendieck • Smale || 1970: Baker • Hironaka • Novikov • Thompson || 1974: Bombieri • Mumford || 1978: Deligne • Fefferman • Margulis • Quillen || 1982: Connes • Thurston • Yau || 1986: Donaldson • Faltings • Freedman || 1990: Drinfeld • Jones • Mori • Witten || 1994: Zelmanov • Lions • Bourgain • Yoccoz || 1998: Borcherds • Gowers • Kontsevich • McMullen || 2002: Lafforgue • Voevodsky || 2006: Okounkov • Perelman • Tao • Werner |
