{{Infobox_Scientist
| name = Alan Baker
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| caption = Alan Baker
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|8|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[London]], [[England]]
| death_date =
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| residence = [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px|]] [[United Kingdom|UK]]
| nationality = [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px|]] [[Briton|British]]
| field = [[Mathematician]]
| work_institutions = [[University of Cambridge]]
| alma_mater = [[University College London]]</br>[[University of Cambridge]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Harold Davenport]]
| doctoral_students =
[[John Coates]]</br>
[[Roger Heath-Brown]]</br>
[[David Masser]]</br>
[[Yuval Flicker]]
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[[Cameron Stewart_(mathematician)|Cameron Stewart]]<-->
| known_for = [[Number theory]]</br>[[Diophantine equations]]
| prizes = [[Fields Medal]] (1970)</br>[[Adams Prize]] (1972)
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'''Alan Baker''' (born on [[August 19]] [[1939]]) is an [[England|English]] [[mathematician]]. He was born in [[London]]. He is known for his work on effective methods in [[number theory]], in particular those arising from [[transcendence theory]]. He was awarded the [[Fields Medal]] in [[1970]], at age 31. His academic career started as a student of [[Harold Davenport]], at [[University College, London]] and later at Cambridge. He is a fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].

His interests are:

# [[Number theory]]
# [[transcendence (mathematics)|Transcendence]]
# [[Logarithmic form]]s
# [[Effective results in number theory|Effective methods]]
# [[Diophantine geometry]]
# [[Diophantine analysis]]

His students include [[John Coates]], [[David Masser]], [[Roger Heath-Brown]], [[Yuval Flicker]], and [[Cameron Stewart (mathematician)|Cameron Stewart]].

==Misc==

* Fellow [[Royal Society]], Fellow [[Indian National Science Academy]]

==External links==
* {{MacTutor Biography|id=Baker_Alan}}
* {{MathGenealogy |id=22765}}

{{Fields medalists}}

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[[Category:English mathematicians]]
[[Category:20th century mathematicians]]
[[Category:Fields Medalists]]
[[Category:Number theorists]]
[[Category:Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]
[[Category:Members of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics]]
[[Category:People from London]]
[[Category:1939 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Adams Prize recipients]]

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