Henry Cabourn Pocklington
Henry Cabourn Pocklington FRS (28 January 1870, Exeter – 15 May 1952, Leeds) was an English physicist and mathematician. His primary profession was as a schoolmaster, but he made important contributions to number theory with the discovery of Pocklington's primality test in 1914[1] and the invention of Pocklington's algorithm.
References
- "Pocklington's test". Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2007.
- Rosenhead, L. (1953). "Henry Cabourn Pocklington. 1870-1952". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8 (22): 555. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1953.0017. JSTOR 769229.
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