Albert Edward Ingham FRS (3 April 1900 – 6 September 1967) was an English mathematician.[4]
Albert Ingham | |
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| Born | Albert Edward Ingham 3 April 1900 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England |
| Died | 6 September 1967 (aged 67) Switzerland |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | |
| Awards | Smith's Prize (1921)[1] Fellow of the Royal Society[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | King's College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral students | Wolfgang Fuchs C. Haselgrove Christopher Hooley Robert Rankin[3] |
| Notes | |
Erdős Number: 1 | |
Early life and education edit
Ingham was born in Northampton. He went to Stafford Grammar School and began his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge in January 1919 after service in the British Army in World War I. Ingham received a distinction as a Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge. He was elected a fellow of Trinity in 1922. He also received an 1851 Research Fellowship.[1][5]
Academic career edit
Ingham was appointed a Reader at the University of Leeds in 1926 and returned to Cambridge as a fellow of King's College and lecturer in 1930. Ingham was appointed after the death of Frank Ramsey.
Ingham supervised the PhDs of C. Brian Haselgrove, Wolfgang Fuchs and Christopher Hooley.[3]
Ingham proved in 1937[6] that if
for some positive constant c, then
for any θ > (1+4c)/(2+4c). Here ζ denotes the Riemann zeta function and π the prime-counting function.
Using the best published value for c at the time, an immediate consequence of his result was that
- gn < pn5/8,
where pn the n-th prime number and gn = pn+1 − pn denotes the n-th prime gap.
Ingham retired from teaching in 1959.[5]
Honours edit
Ingham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1945.[5]
Marriage and children edit
Ingham married Rose Marie "Jane" Tupper‑Carey in 1932. They had two sons.
Death edit
Ingham died in Switzerland in 1967, aged 67.[5]
Publications edit
Ingham's sole book, On the Distribution of Prime Numbers, was published in 1932.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Albert Ingham", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Burkill, J. C. (1968). "Albert Edward Ingham 1900-1967". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 14: 271–286. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1968.0012. S2CID 73247345.
- ^ a b Albert Ingham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ The Distribution of Prime Numbers, Cambridge University Press, 1932 (Reissued with a foreword by R. C. Vaughan in 1990)
- ^ a b c d e "Mr A. E. Ingham". The Times. No. 57042. London. 9 September 1967. p. 12. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- ^ Ingham, A. E. (1937). "On the Difference Between Consecutive Primes". The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics: 255–266. Bibcode:1937QJMat...8..255I. doi:10.1093/qmath/os-8.1.255.