Christopher Hooley

{{Short description|British mathematician (1928–2018)}}

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| awards = Adams Prize {{small|(1972)}}
Senior Berwick Prize (1980)

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Christopher Hooley {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FLSW}} (7 August 1928 – 13 December 2018)[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=191021805 Prof Christopher Hooley] was a British mathematician and professor of mathematics at Cardiff University.

He did his PhD under the supervision of Albert Ingham. He won the Adams Prize of Cambridge University in 1973. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983.{{Cite journal|last=Heath-Brown|first=D. R.|date=2020|title=Christopher Hooley. 7 August 1928—13 December 2018|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=69|pages=225–246|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2020.0027|s2cid=221538508|doi-access=free}} He was also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

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)