Alan Baker#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1835 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Alan Baker passed away February 4, 2018.
Positions Held
- since 2006 Professor Emeritus
- 1974 - 2006 Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- 1968 - 1974 Director of Studies in Mathematics
- 1964 - 1968 Cambridge Research Fellow
- 1964 Fellow, Trinity College
- 1965 Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Number theory
- Transcendence
- Logarithmic forms
- Effective methods
- Diophantine analysis
- Diophantine geometry
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Fields Medal
- 1972 Adams Prize, Cambridge
- 1973 FRS
- 1979 Fellow, Univ. Coll. London
- 1980 Foreign Fellow, Indian Nat. Science Acad.
- 1993 Foreign Fellow, Nat. Acad. of Sciences, India
- 1998 Docteur (h.c.), Univ. Strasbourg
- 2001 Honorary Memmber of the Hugarian Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
