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
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Raines, Jeremy Keith (2007). Folded Unipole Antennas: Theory and Applications. McGraw-Hill. p. 10. ISBN 978-0071510202.
- Rosenhead, L. (1953). "Henry Cabourn Pocklington. 1870-1952". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8 (22): 555–565. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1953.0017. JSTOR 769229.
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