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Alan Baker

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Alan Baker

English mathematician (1939-2018)

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The failures of the international community in the Middle East
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Comprehensive Course in Number Theory
Logarithmic Forms and Diophantine Geometry. New Mathematical Monographs, Volume 9
Stop, Look and Listen, Mr. Toad

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1929-12-23
Active to: 1988-05-13

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Alan Baker FRS (19 August 1939 – 4 February 2018) was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory.

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1939 births 2018 deaths 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of University College London British fellows of the Royal Society British number theorists Cambridge mathematicians English Jews Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge

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Cited by: 26,315
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4712-4863

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Accumulators and excluders ‐strategies in the response of plants to heavy metals1981 · 2,182 cit
Hyperaccumulators of metal and metalloid trace elements: Facts and fiction2012 · 1,393 cit
Hopes for the Future: Restoration Ecology and Conservation Biology1997 · 1,027 cit
Metal Hyperaccumulator Plants: A Review of the Ecology and Physiology of a Biological Resource for Phytoremediation of Metal-Polluted Soils2020 · 1,016 cit
Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel1996 · 955 cit

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Born: ( 1939-08-19 ) 19 August 1939, London, England
Died: 4 February 2018 (2018-02-04) (aged 78), Cambridge , England
Alma mater: University College London , University of Cambridge
Known for: Number theory , Diophantine equations , Baker's theorem , Baker–Heegner–Stark theorem
Awards: Fields Medal (1970), Adams Prize (1972)
Fields: Mathematics
Institutions: University of Cambridge
Thesis: Some Aspects of Diophantine Approximation (1964)
Doctoral advisor: Harold Davenport
Doctoral students: John Coates , Yuval Flicker , Roger Heath-Brown , David Masser , Cameron Stewart

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