Hugh Montgomery

Hugh Lowell Montgomery (born 1944) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of analytic number theory and mathematical analysis. He is the namesake of Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture on the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, is known for his development of large sieve methods, and is the author of multiple books on number theory and analysis. He was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. On graduating in 1966, he became a Marshall scholar at the University of Cambridge in England. There, he became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1969, and completed his Ph.D. in 1972. His dissertation, Topics in Multiplicative Number Theory, was supervised by Harold Davenport.

He became an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1972. He was quickly promoted, to associate professor in 1973 and full professor in 1975. and the 1974 recipient of the Salem Prize.

In 1974, Montgomery was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Vancouver. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications Books

Research articles