The Legacy of Kurt Mahler

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 February 25, 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. Over twenty-five years have now passed since Mahler’s death, and nearly five years since van der Poorten’s. Recently, in memory of van der Poorten, we1 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