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

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, professor of mathematics at Cardiff University. He did his PhD under the supervision of

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 ...

. He won the

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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

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holds for non-singular

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s 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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