Mathematician:Kurt Mahler

Mathematician

German mathematician working mainly in analysis and number theory.

Proved the Prouhet-Thue-Morse constant and Champernowne constant to be transcendental.

Nationality

German, later British

History

• Born: 26 July 1903, Krefeld, Germany
• 1946: Became British citizen
• Died: 25 February 1988, Canberra, Australia

Theorems and Definitions

• Mahler's Inequality
• Mahler Measure
• Mahler Volume
• Mahler's Theorem
• Mahler's Number (also known as the Champernowne constant or Champernowne's number for David Gawen Champernowne)

Results named for Kurt Mahler can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Kurt Mahler can be found here.

Publications

• 1929: Arithmetische Eigenschaften der Lösungen einer Klasse von Funktionalgleichungen
• 1937: Arithmetische Eigenschaften einer Klasse von Dezimalbrüchen (Proc. Konin. Neder. Akad. Wet. Ser. A Vol. 40: pp. 421 – 428)
• 1946: On Lattice Points in n-dimensional Star Bodies I. Existence Theorems

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Kurt Mahler": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive