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Alan Baker
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1939-08-19 ) 19 August 1939, London, England
- Died
- 4 February 2018 (2018-02-04) (aged 78), Cambridge , England
- Alma mater
- University College London , University of Cambridge
- Known for
- Number theory , Diophantine equations , Baker's theorem , Baker–Heegner–Stark theorem
- Awards
- Fields Medal (1970), Adams Prize (1972)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- 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 , Cameron Stewart
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Harold Davenport
- Doctoral student
- Roger Heath-Brown
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Alan-Baker.jpg
- Residence
- United Kingdom
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- member of
- European Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1939-08-19
- Erdős number
- 2
- date of death
- 2018-02-04
- name in native language
- Alan Baker
- Commons category
- Alan Baker
- student
- David Masser
- cause of death
- cerebrovascular disease
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Alan Baker FRS (19 August 1939 – 4 February 2018) was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory.
Life
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