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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. He also derived the first equation for the current in a wire antenna, Pocklington's integral equation.

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1. "Pocklington's test". Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2007.
2. Pocklington, Henry C. (25 October 1897). "Electrical oscillations in wires". Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 9. London, UK: Cambridge Philosophical Society: 324–332. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
3. Raines, Jeremy Keith (2007). Folded Unipole Antennas: Theory and Applications. McGraw-Hill. p. 10. ISBN 978-0071510202.

• Rosenhead, L. (1953). "Henry Cabourn Pocklington. 1870-1952". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 8 (22): 555–565. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1953.0017. JSTOR 769229.

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