About Martin Huxley
Born 1944. Martin Huxley is a British mathematician and university teacher, known for Analytic number theory and Sieve theory.
Martin Neil Huxley FLSW (born in 1944) is a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.
He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1970, the year after his supervisor Harold Davenport had died. He is a professor at Cardiff University.
Huxley proved a result on gaps between prime numbers, namely that if pn denotes the n-th prime number and if θ > 7/12, then
for all sufficiently large n.
Huxley also improved the known bound on the Dirichlet divisor problem.
In 2011, Huxley was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
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Who is Martin Huxley?
British mathematician
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Martin Huxley was born in 1944 in Worksop.
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Martin Huxley is a mathematician and university teacher.
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Martin Huxley is known for Analytic number theory and Sieve theory.
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