Henry Cabourn Pocklington Explained
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
- Rosenhead . L. . Henry Cabourn Pocklington. 1870-1952 . 10.1098/rsbm.1953.0017 . . 8 . 22 . 555–565 . 1953 . 769229. free .
Notes and References
- Web site: Pocklington's test . 2007-02-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070207005132/http://services.spd.dcu.ie/johnbcos/download/3rd_year/Pocklington_1914/1914_PAP1.html . 2007-02-07 . dead .
- Pocklington . Henry C. . Electrical oscillations in wires . Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society . 9 . 324–332 . Cambridge Philosophical Society . London, UK . October 25, 1897 . 21 July 2022.
- Book: Raines . Jeremy Keith . Folded Unipole Antennas: Theory and Applications . McGraw-Hill . 2007 . 10 . 978-0071510202 .