David Masser | |
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) David Masser | |
| Born | 8 November 1948 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | abc conjecture |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Basel |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Baker |
| Doctoral students | Paula Tretkoff |
| Website | math |
David William Masser (born 8 November 1948) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel. Along with Joseph Oesterlé, Masser formulated the abc conjecture which has been called "the most important unsolved problem in Diophantine analysis".[1]
Career
He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1974[2] on the topic of Elliptic Functions and Transcendence. His supervisor was Alan Baker.
Before his appointment at the Mathematics Institute in Basel, Masser taught at the University of Michigan. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Warsaw in 1983. He is known for his work in number theory, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2005.
External links
David Masser's entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project.
References
- ^ Goldfeld, Dorian (March–April 1996), "Beyond the last theorem", The Sciences, 36 (2): 34–40, doi:10.1002/j.2326-1951.1996.tb03243.x.
- ^ David Masser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project