About Henry Cabourn Pocklington
Lived 1870 – 1952 (aged 82). Henry Cabourn Pocklington was a mathematician and physicist.
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 and the invention of Pocklington's algorithm. He also derived the first equation for the current in a wire antenna, Pocklington's integral equation.
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British mathematician and physicist (1870–1952)
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Henry Cabourn Pocklington was born on 28 January 1870 in Exeter.
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Henry Cabourn Pocklington died on 15 May 1952.
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Henry Cabourn Pocklington was a mathematician and physicist.
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