What is Alan Baker (mathematician)?
[[File:Alan Baker.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Baker in the 1950s]] '''Alan Baker''', [[Royal Society|FRS]] (19 August 1939 – 4 February 2018<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/tributes-paid-to-professor-alan-baker/ |title=Trinity College website, accessed 5 February 2018 |access-date=5 February 2018 |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002185354/https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/tributes-paid-to-professor-alan-baker/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>) was an [[England|English]] [[mathematician]]. He was known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular ideas from [[transcendental number theory]]. He was born in [[London]]. He worked at the [[University of Cambridge]]. In 1970, Baker won the [[Fields Medal]]. In 1998 he became a member of the [[Academia Europaea]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Baker_Alan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Baker_Alan |title=Alan Baker |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> In 2012 he became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2012-11-03.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Alan}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Fields Medalists]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:English mathematicians]] [[Category:Members of Academia Europaea]] {{bio-stub}}