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Hugh Montgomery

American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1944 · age 82

Hugh Lowell Montgomery is an American mathematician, working in the fields of analytic number theory and mathematical analysis.

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2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward1974Salem PrizeAward1972Adams PrizeAward1944Born26 August 1944

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Fellow of the American Mathematical Society2013
Salem Prize1974
Adams Prize1972
Rhodes Scholarship

About this person

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.

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Born 1944 · age 82