Alan Baker
Alan Baker · Science & Medicine
Transcendental number theory; linear forms in logarithms (Fields Medal)
1939, London, England — 2018, Cambridge, England
England (University College London · Trinity College, Cambridge)
Alan Baker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Transcendental number theory; linear forms in logarithms (Fields Medal)
Born into a Jewish family in London, Baker transformed transcendental number theory with his effective theory of linear forms in logarithms, generalising the Gelfond–Schneider theorem and yielding concrete bounds for whole classes of Diophantine equations. This effectiveness let mathematicians actually solve problems rather than only prove solutions exist. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970.
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Transcendental number theory; linear forms in logarithms (Fields Medal)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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