Albert Ingham

Albert Edward Ingham ( born April 3, 1900 in Northampton, † September 6, 1967 in Chamonix ) was an English mathematician who worked on analytic number theory and analysis.

Life and work

Ingham visited in 1919 with a scholarship to Trinity College, University of Cambridge ( after a few months as a soldier in the First World War). He distinguished himself in the Mathematical Tripos and won the Smith Prize. In 1922 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College. In the same year he received his doctorate at John Edensor Littlewood. Thereafter he devoted himself for some years exclusively for the research and also attended the University of Göttingen. In 1926 he became Reader at the University of Leeds. From 1930 he was back in Cambridge as a lecturer. In 1953 he became Reader. He died during a hiking holiday in the Alps.

Ingham engaged in analytic number theory, especially the theory of the Riemann zeta function and the distribution of primes (about which he wrote in 1932 a classic textbook ), but also the number theory and Tauber records ( Norbert Wiener following). In 1937, he intensified the assessment of Guido Hoheisel for the difference of consecutive primes. In 1919 he gave a method on how you can be a counterexample to a conjecture of George Pólyafinden, with the RSLehman finally in 1960 with the help of a computer auffand a counterexample.

In 1945 he was inducted into the Royal Society.

Writings

On the distribution of prime numbers. Cambridge University Press ( Cambridge Tracts ), 1932.