BAKER, ALAN
a.baker@dpmms.cam.ac.uk

Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge University, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics

Research interests : Number theory, transcendence, logarithmic forms, effective methods, Diophantine geometry, Diophantine analysis

Scientific contribution : Pr Baker generalized the Gelfond-Schneider theorem (the solution to Hilbert's seventh problem). From this work he generated transcendental numbers not previously identified.

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