Kurt Mahler

Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler, 1970

Kurt Mahler (26 July 1903, Krefeld, Germany – 25 February 1988, Canberra, Australia) was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society.

He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and Göttingen, graduating with a Ph.D. from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in 1927.[1] He left Germany with the rise of Hitler and accepted an invitation by Louis Mordell to go to Manchester. He became a British citizen in 1946.

Mahler held the following positions:

He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1948 and a member of the Australian Academy of Science in 1965. He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Senior Berwick Prize in 1950, the De Morgan Medal, 1971, and the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, 1977.

He spoke fluent Chinese and was an expert photographer.

Mahler proved that the Prouhet–Thue–Morse constant and the Champernowne constant 0.1234567891011121314151617181920... are transcendental numbers.[2][3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Kurt Mahler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ^ Kurt Mahler, "Arithmetische Eigenschaften der Lösungen einer Klasse von Funktionalgleichungen", Math. Annalen, t. 101 (1929), p. 342–366.
  3. ^ Kurt Mahler, "Arithmetische Eigenschaften einer Klasse von Dezimalbrüchen", Proc. Konin. Neder. Akad. Wet. Ser. A. 40 (1937), p. 421–428.



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