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

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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