Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler FRS (26 July 1903, Krefeld, Germany – 25 February 1988, Canberra, Australia) was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of transcendental number theory, diophantine approximation, p-adic analysis, and the geometry of numbers.
Kurt Mahler | |
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Kurt Mahler in 1970 | |
| Born | 26 July 1903 |
| Died | 25 February 1988 (aged 84) Canberra, Australia |
| Alma mater | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
| Known for | Mahler's inequality Mahler measure Mahler polynomial Mahler volume Mahler's theorem Mahler's compactness theorem Skolem–Mahler–Lech theorem |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1948) Member of the Australian Academy of Science (1965) Senior Berwick Prize (1950) De Morgan Medal (1971) Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (1977) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Ohio State University Australian National University University of Manchester University of Groningen |
| Thesis | Über die Nullstellen der unvollständigen Gammafunktion (1927) |
| Doctoral advisor | Carl Ludwig Siegel |
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