Hugh Lowell Montgomery
Hugh Lowell Montgomery | |
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Hugh Montgomery in 2008 | |
| Born | August 26, 1944 (age 80) Muncie, Indiana, U.S. |
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| Known for | Analytic number theory |
| Awards | Adams Prize (1972) Salem Prize (1974) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Topics in Multiplicative Number Theory (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Davenport |
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Hugh Lowell Montgomery (born 1944) is an American mathematician, working in the fields of analytic number theory and mathematical analysis. He is the namesake of Montgomery's pair correlation conjecture on the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, is known for his development of large sieve methods, and is the author of multiple books on number theory and analysis. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan.