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Alan Baker
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Alan Baker (1939–2018) was a British mathematician and university teacher who specialized in number theory. Born in London, he received his education at University College London and Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he completed his doctorate under the supervision of Harold Davenport. He served as a member of the Royal Society, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, and Academia Europaea. During his academic career, he was employed by the University of Cambridge and supervised doctoral students including David Masser, John H Coates, and Roger Heath-Brown.
Baker was recognized with the Fields Medal, the Adams Prize, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society. His scholarly output included works such as *Comprehensive Course in Number Theory* and *Logarithmic Forms and Diophantine Geometry*. He resided in the United Kingdom and died in Cambridge.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 158
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929-12-23
- Active to
- 1988-05-13
Discography
- Chet Baker Quartet featuring Russ Freeman1953
- Chet Baker Sings1954
- Chet Baker & Strings1954
- Gerry Mulligan Quartet1955
- Sings and Plays With Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings1955
- The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker1955
- Playboys1956
- Quartet: Russ Freeman Chet Baker1957
- It Could Happen to You: Chet Baker Sings1958
- Chet Baker in New York1958
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 726
- Total plays
- 2,711
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 322
- Cited by
- 26,315
Research areas
Most cited works
- Accumulators and excluders ‐strategies in the response of plants to heavy metals1981 · 2,182 cit
- Hyperaccumulators of metal and metalloid trace elements: Facts and fiction2012 · 1,393 cit
- Hopes for the Future: Restoration Ecology and Conservation Biology1997 · 1,027 cit
- Metal Hyperaccumulator Plants: A Review of the Ecology and Physiology of a Biological Resource for Phytoremediation of Metal-Polluted Soils2020 · 1,016 cit
- Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel1996 · 955 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,833x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,255x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 18,289x
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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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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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