Christopher Hooley (7 August 1928 – 13 December 2018) was a British

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and professor of mathematics at

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. He did his PhD under the supervision of Albert Ingham. He won the Adams Prize of

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in 1973. He was elected a

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in 1983. He was also a Founding Fellow of the

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. He showed that the Hasse principle holds for non-singular cubic forms in at least nine variables.C. Hooley, ''On nonary cubic forms'', Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 386, pages 32-98, (1988)

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* 1928 births 2018 deaths 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Academics of Cardiff University Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales Fellows of the Royal Society British number theorists Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge {{UK-mathematician-stub