caption doctoral_advisor birth_place awards image_size fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
hugh montgomery in 2008 harold davenport muncie , indiana , u.s. adams -rrb- prize -lrb- 1972 -rrb- salem prize -lrb- 1974 200px mathematician university of michigan august 26 , 1944 analytic number theory brian conrey hugh montgomery at oberwolfach 2008.jpg hugh montgomery -lrb- mathematician -rrb-
 hugh lowell montgomery university of cambridge
hugh montgomery -lrb- mathematician -rrb-

hugh lowell montgomery -lrb- born august 26 , 1944 -rrb- is an american mathematician , working in the fields of analytic number theory and mathematical analysis .
as a marshall scholar , montgomery earned his ph.d. from the university of cambridge .
for many years , montgomery has been teaching at the university of michigan .
he is best known for montgomery 's pair correlation conjecture , his development of the large sieve methods and for co-authoring -lrb- with ivan m. niven and herbert zuckerman -rrb- one of the standard introductory number theory texts , `` an introduction to the theory of numbers '' , now in its fifth edition -lrb- isbn 0471625469 -rrb- .
in 2012 he became a fellow of the american mathematical society .
