Henry Cabourn Pocklington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Cabourn Pocklington

British mathematician and physicist

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1870

Place of Birth: Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-May-1952

Profession: physicist, mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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 and the invention of Pocklington's algorithm.