Martin Huxley
| Martin Neil Huxley | |
|---|---|
|
Martin Huxley in 2008 | |
| Born |
1944 Worksop |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Cardiff |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Davenport |
| Known for |
Analytic number theory Sieve theory |
Martin Neil Huxley (born in 1944) is a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.
He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1970, the year after his supervisor Harold Davenport had died. He is a professor at Cardiff University.
Huxley proved a result on gaps between prime numbers,[1] namely that if pn denotes the n-th prime number and if θ > 7/12, then
for all sufficiently large n.
References
- ↑ Huxley, M. N. (1972). "On the difference between consecutive primes". Inventiones Mathematicae. 15 (2): 164–170. doi:10.1007/BF01418933.
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