Hugh Montgomery
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This article the American mathematician. For Ulster-Scot noble, see Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount of the Great Ardes.
Hugh Montgomery is an American mathematician, working in the fields of analytic number theory and mathematical analysis. He earned his PhD from University of Cambridge and now teaches at University of Michigan.
He is best known for his development of the large sieve methods and for co-authoring (with Ivan Niven and Herbert S. Zuckerman) one of the standard introductory number theory texts, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, now in its fifth edition.