Colin Brian Haselgrove (26 September 1926 – 27 May 1964) was an English mathematician who is best known for his
disproof
A proof is sufficient evidence or a sufficient argument for the truth of a proposition.
The concept applies in a variety of disciplines,
with both the nature of the evidence or justification and the criteria for sufficiency being area-dependen ...
of the
Pólya conjecture
In number theory, the Pólya conjecture (or Pólya's conjecture) stated that "most" (i.e., 50% or more) of the natural numbers less than any given number have an ''odd'' number of prime factors. The conjecture was set forth by the Hungarian mathe ...
in 1958.
Haselgrove was educated at
Blundell's School
Blundell's School is an Private schools in the United Kingdom, independent co-educational boarding school, boarding and Day school, day school in the English Public School (United Kingdom), public school tradition, located in Tiverton, Devon, T ...
and from there won a scholarship to
King's College, Cambridge
King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...
. He obtained his Ph.D., which was supervised by
Albert Ingham
Albert Edward Ingham (3 April 1900 – 6 September 1967) was an English mathematician.
Early life and education
Ingham was born in Northampton. He went to Stafford Grammar School and began his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge in January ...
, from Cambridge in 1956.
Personal life
Haselgrove was married to fellow mathematician
Jenifer Haselgrove. After having suffered minor epileptic fits for several years caused by a brain tumor, he died in Manchester in May 1964.
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1926 births
1964 deaths
People educated at Blundell's School
20th-century English mathematicians
British number theorists
Deaths from brain cancer in England
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge