Alan Baker, FRS, 1939–2018.

Alan Baker, Fields Medallist, died on 4 February 2018 in Cambridge, England, after a severe stroke a few days earlier. In 1970 he was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress in Nice on the basis of his outstanding work on linear forms in logarithms and its consequences. Since then he received many honours, including the prestigious Adams Prize of Cambridge University, the election to the Royal Society (1973) and the Academia Europeae; and he was made an honorary fellow of University College London, a foreign fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, a foreign fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]