C. Brian Haselgrove

For the British archaeologist, see Colin Haselgrove.

Colin Brian Haselgrove (26 September 1926 – 27 May 1964) was an English mathematician who is best known for his disproof of the Pólya conjecture in 1958.^[1]

Brian Haselgrove
Born	(1926-09-26)26 September 1926 Waltham Forest, London, England
Died	27 May 1964(1964-05-27) (aged 37)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Disproof of Pólya conjecture
Awards	Smith's Prize (1950)
Scientific career
Thesis	Some theorems in the analytic theory of numbers  (1956)
Doctoral advisor	Albert Ingham

Haselgrove was educated at Blundell's School and from there won a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. He obtained his Ph.D., which was supervised by Albert Ingham, 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.^[2]