David William 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". Before his appointment at the Mathematics Institute in Basel, Masser taught at the University of Michigan. He is known for his work in number theory, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2005. Wikipedia
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