Kurt Mahler
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Kurt Mahler (26 July 1903, Krefeld, Germany – 25 February 1988, Canberra, Australia) was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and Göttingen. He left Germany with the rise of Hitler and accepted an invitation by Louis Mordell to go to Manchester. He became a British citizen in 1946.
Mahler held the following positions:
- Manchester University
- Assistant Lecturer at 1937–39, 1941–44
- Lecturer, 1944–47; Senior Lecturer, 1948–49; Reader, 1949–52
- Professor of Mathematical Analysis, 1952–63
- Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, 1963–68 and 1972–5
- Professor of Mathematics, Ohio State University, USA, 1968–72
- Professor Emeritus, Australian National University, from 1975.
He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1948 and a member of the Australian Academy of Science in 1965. He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Senior Berwick Prize in 1950, the De Morgan Medal, 1971, and the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, 1977.
He spoke fluent Chinese and was an expert photographer.
Mahler proved that 0.1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526... is a transcendental number.
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