Mathematician:Alan Baker

British mathematician whose main area of work has been in finding effective methods for number theory.

Nationality
British

History

 * Born: 19 Aug 1939, London, England
 * 1970: Awarded Fields Medal
 * 1972: Awarded Adams Prize from University of Cambridge

Books and Papers

 * 1966: Linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers: I
 * 1967: Linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers: II
 * 1967: Linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers: III
 * 1975: Transcendental number theory (2nd edition: 1990)
 * 1977: Transcendence theory: advances and applications
 * 1984:
 * 1988: New advances in transcendence theory (editor)
 * 2007: Logarithmic forms and Diophantine geometry (with Gisbert Wüstholz)