Albert Ingham

Albert Edward Ingham FRS (3 April 1900 – 6 September 1967) was an English mathematician.[4]

Albert Ingham
Born	Albert Edward Ingham (1900-04-03)3 April 1900 Northampton, England
Died	6 September 1967(1967-09-06) (aged 67)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Awards	Smith's Prize (1921)[1] Fellow of the Royal Society[2]
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Doctoral students	Wolfgang Fuchs C. Haselgrove Christopher Hooley Robert Rankin[3]
Influences	John Edensor Littlewood[1]
Notes
Erdős Number: 1

Education

Ingham was born in Northampton. He went to Stafford Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]

Research

Ingham supervised the Ph.D.s of C. Brian Haselgrove, Wolfgang Fuchs and Christopher Hooley.[3] Ingham died in Chamonix, France.

Ingham proved in 1937[5] that if

${\displaystyle \zeta \left(1/2+it\right)=O\left(t^{c}\right)}$

for some positive constant c, then

${\displaystyle \pi \left(x+x^{\theta }\right)-\pi (x)\sim {\frac {x^{\theta }}{\log x}},}$

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

g_n < p_n^5/8,

where p_n the n-th prime number and g_n = p_n+1 − p_n denotes the n-th prime gap.

References

1. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Albert Ingham", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
2. 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.
3. Albert Ingham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. The Distribution of Prime Numbers, Cambridge University Press, 1932 (Reissued with a foreword by R. C. Vaughan in 1990)
5. 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.