Martin Huxley
| Martin Neil Huxley | |
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Martin Huxley in 2008
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| Born | 1944 Worksop |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Cardiff |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Davenport |
| Known for | Analytic number theory Sieve theory |
Martin Neil Huxley (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,[1] namely that if pn denotes the n-th prime number and if θ > 7/12, then
for all sufficiently large n.
He has an Erdős number of 2 and an Einstein number of 3.
References
- ^ Huxley, M. N. (1972). "On the Difference between Consecutive Primes". Inventiones mathematicae 15 (2): 164–170. doi:10.1007/BF01418933.