1. David William Masser was born on 8 November 1948 and is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel.
10 Facts About David Masser
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David Masser is known for his work in transcendental number theory, Diophantine approximation, and Diophantine geometry.
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David Masser was born on 8 November 1948 in London, England.
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David Masser returned to the University of Nottingham to serve as a Lecturer from 1976 to 1979 and then as a Reader from 1979 to 1983.
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David Masser was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1983 to 1992.
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David Masser then moved to the Mathematics Institute at the University of Basel and became emeritus there in 2014.
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David Masser's research focuses on transcendental number theory, Diophantine approximation, and Diophantine geometry.
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The abc conjecture originated as the outcome of attempts by Oesterle and David Masser to understand the Szpiro conjecture about elliptic curves.
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David Masser was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw in 1983.
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David Masser was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005.