Alan Baker (mathematician)

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Alan Baker
Born	(1939-08-19) 19 August 1939 London, England
Nationality	British
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Alma mater	University College London University of Cambridge
Thesis	Some Aspects of Diophantine Approximation (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Harold Davenport
Doctoral students	John Coates Yuval Flicker Roger Heath-Brown David Masser Robert Odoni Cameron Stewart
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 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 are in number theory, transcendence, logarithmic form, effective methods, Diophantine geometry and Diophantine analysis.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

• Baker, Alan (1966), "Linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers. I", Mathematika 13: 204–216, doi:10.1112/S0025579300003971, ISSN 0025-5793, MR 0220680 
• Baker, Alan (1967a), "Linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers. II", Mathematika 14: 102–107, doi:10.1112/S0025579300008068, ISSN 0025-5793, MR 0220680 
• Baker, Alan (1967b), "Linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers. III", Mathematika 14: 220–228, doi:10.1112/S0025579300003843, ISSN 0025-5793, MR 0220680 
• Baker, Alan (1990), Transcendental number theory, Cambridge Mathematical Library (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-39791-9, MR 0422171 
• Baker, Alan; Wüstholz, G. (2007), Logarithmic forms and Diophantine geometry, New Mathematical Monographs 9, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-88268-2, MR 2382891 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alan Baker (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
• Alan Baker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project