Major Results
The Gelfond–Schneider theorem was the major advance in transcendence theory in the period 1900-1950. In the 1960s the method of Alan Baker on linear forms in logarithms of algebraic numbers reanimated transcendence theory, with applications to numerous classical problems and diophantine equations.
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