Mathematician:Kurt Mahler

Mathematician
German mathematician working mainly in analysis and number theory.

Proved the Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant and Champernowne constant to be transcendental.

Nationality
German, later British

History

 * Born: 26 July 1903, Krefeld, Germany
 * 1946: Became British citizen
 * Died: 25 February 1988, Canberra, Australia

Theorems and Definitions

 * Mahler's Inequality
 * Mahler Measure
 * Mahler Volume
 * Mahler's Theorem
 * Mahler's Number (also known as the Champernowne Constant for )

Publications

 * 1929: Arithmetische Eigenschaften der Lösungen einer Klasse von Funktionalgleichungen
 * 1937: Arithmetische Eigenschaften einer Klasse von Dezimalbrüchen
 * 1946: On Lattice Points in n-dimensional Star Bodies I. Existence Theorems