Hugh Lowell Montgomery

Hugh Lowell Montgomery
Hugh Montgomery at Oberwolfach in 2008
BornAugust 26, 1944 (1944-08-26) (age 81)
Muncie, Indiana, U.S.
Education
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS 1966)
  • University of Cambridge (PhD 1972)
Known forAnalytic number theory
AwardsAdams Prize (1972)
Salem Prize (1974)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
ThesisTopics in Multiplicative Number Theory (1972)
Doctoral advisor
Harold Davenport
Doctoral students

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.

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