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Henry Cabourn Pocklington

Henry Cabourn Pocklington

English physicist and mathematician

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. He also derived the first equation for the current in a wire antenna, Pocklington's integral equation.[2][3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Pocklington's test". Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2007.
  2. [2]
    Pocklington, Henry C. (25 October 1897). "Electrical oscillations in wires". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 9. London, UK: Cambridge Philosophical Society: 324–332. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  3. [3]
    Raines, Jeremy Keith (2007). Folded Unipole Antennas: Theory and Applications. McGraw-Hill. p. 10. ISBN 978-0071510202.


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