The legacy of Kurt Mahler (Q461504)

From the text: ``I hope that you can continue with your preparing of my collected works. When my old papers first appeared, they produced little interest in the mathematical world, and it was only in recent times that they have been rediscovered and found useful. So a collection of all my papers may repair this position!'' [Kurt Mahler, in his last letter to Alf van der Poorten] ``The quote at the beginning of this article was taken from a letter written by Kurt Mahler to Alf van der Poorten the day before Mahler died on 25 February 1988; it was received after van der Poorten had heard about Mahler's death. At that time van der Poorten had already begun to collect Mahler's works. Twenty-five years have now passed since Mahler's death, and three years since van der Poorten's. Recently, in memory of van der Poorten, we have finished van der Poorten's project and established the Kurt Mahler Archive. The Archive is hosted by the Centre for Computer-Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications (CARMA), which is located at the University of Newcastle, Australia. It can be found using the following \url{http://carma.newcastle.edu.au/mahler/index.html}.'' The following sections are entitled: 1) Mahler, the man. 2) Mahler and Number Theory in Australia. 3) The Mahler Archive. 4) Conclusion. Using the Archive one can see that he published papers in his native German, as well as in English, Italian, Dutch, Russian and even Chinese! Mahler's interest in Chinese led him to do more than write just one paper in the language. He even gave a course in Chinese to graduate students in mathematics, his lecture notes, ``Lectures on the reading of mathematics in Chinese'', can be found on the Archive in the Collection under the year 1972.