About Christopher Hooley
Lived 1928 – 2018 (aged 90). Christopher Hooley was a British mathematician and university teacher.
Christopher Hooley (7 August 1928 – 13 December 2018) was a British mathematician and professor of mathematics at Cardiff University.
He did his PhD under the supervision of Albert Ingham. He won the Adams Prize of Cambridge University in 1973. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983. He was also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
He showed that the Hasse principle holds for non-singular cubic forms in at least nine variables.
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Who was Christopher Hooley?
British mathematician
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Christopher Hooley was born on 7 August 1928 in Edinburgh.
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Christopher Hooley died on 13 December 2018.
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Christopher Hooley was a mathematician and university teacher.
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