David Masser

David Masser
David Masser
Born	1948 (age 62–63) London
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Basel
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Alan Baker
Doctoral students	Daniel Kornhauser Paula Tretkoff Noel Wass
Known for	abc conjecture

David William Masser (born 1948) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1974 on the topic of Elliptic Functions and Transcendence.

Before his appointment at the Mathematics Institute in Basel, Masser taught at the University of Michigan. He is known for his work in number theory, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2005.

Along with Joseph Oesterlé, Masser formulated the abc conjecture in 1985. It has been stated that this conjecture "is the most important unsolved problem in Diophantine analysis".^[1] An example of diophantine analysis would be the attempt to solve Fermat's last theorem.

References

1. ^ Goldfeld, Dorian (March/April 1996), "Beyond the last theorem", The Sciences: 34–40 .

External links

• David Masser's homepage (German)
• David Masser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Name	Masser, David William
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Date of birth	1948
Place of birth	London
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