Kurt Mahler was a German mathematician, born on 26 July 1903 and died on 25 February 1988, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in transcendental number theory, which asks whether particular numbers can be roots of polynomials with rational coefficients, and in diophantine approximation, the study of how closely irrational numbers can be approximated by fractions. He also worked in p-adic analysis and in the geometry of numbers, and his name is attached to a number of results and problems in these areas.
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was a German mathematician
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Mahler 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; his advisor was Carl Ludwig Siegel.
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Mahler 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; his advisor was Carl Ludwig Siegel.
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In algebraic number theory, the Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem states that if a sequence of numbers satisfies a linear recurrence with constant coefficients, then with finitely
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In mathematics, Mahler's compactness theorem, proved by Kurt Mahler (1946), is a foundational result on lattices in Euclidean space, characterising
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In mathematics, Mahler's theorem, introduced by Kurt Mahler (1958), expresses any continuous p-adic function as an infinite series of certain special
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the body and is invariant under linear transformations. It is named after German-English mathematician Kurt Mahler. It is known that the shapes with the largest possible Mahler volume are the balls and solid ellipsoids; this is now known
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