David W. Masser is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1974 on the topic of Elliptic Functions and Transcendence. A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space and change. ... The University of Basel (German: Universität Basel) is located at Basel, Switzerland. ... Basel (English traditionally: Basle , German: Basel , French Bâle , Italian Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world (after Oxford). ... In complex analysis, an elliptic function is, roughly speaking , a function defined on the complex plane which is periodic in two directions. ... In mathematics, a transcendental function is a function which is not expressible as a composition of a finite number of elementary operations, or inverses of functions so constructible, where the elementary operations consist of addition, multiplication, taking additive or multiplicative inverses, and integer root extraction. ...

Before his appointment at the Mathematics Institute in Basel, taught at places such as the University of Michigan, in the USA. He is known for his work in number theory, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2005. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... Traditionally, number theory is that branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers. ... The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Along with Joseph Oesterlé, Masser formulated the so-called 'ABC conjecture' in 1985. It has been stated that this conjecture "is the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis." An example of diophantine analysis would be the attempt to solve Fermat's last theorem. Joseph Oesterlé is a mathematician who, along with David Masser, formulated the so-called ABC conjecture in 1985. ... The abc conjecture in number theory was first formulated by Joseph Oesterl and David Masser in 1985. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mathmatical and Non-Mathamatical Definitions In mathematics, a conjecture is a mathematical statement which has been proposed as a true statement, but which no one has yet been able to prove or disprove. ... In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is an equation between two polynomials with integer coefficients with any number of unknowns. ... Fermats last theorem - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

External Links

• David Masser's homepage (in German)
• The Mathematics Geneology Project - David Masser