Alan BakerAlan Baker was one of the leading British mathematicians of the past century. He took great strides in number theory by, among other achievements, obtaining a vast generalization of the Gelfond-Schneider Theorem and using it to give effective solutios to a large class of Diophantine problems. This work kicked off a new era in transcendental number theory and won Baker the Fields Medal in 1970. Read More Read Less