Philip Hall
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| Philip Hall | |
| Born | 11 April 1904 Hampstead, London, England |
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| Died | 30 December 1982 (aged 78) Cambridge, England |
| Residence | UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Cambridge University |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Pearson |
| Doctoral students | Garrett Birkhoff Bernhard Neumann James Green Paul Cohn Brian Hartley |
| Known for | Marriage theorem Hall polynomial Hall subgroup Hall–Littlewood polynomial |
| Notable awards | Larmor Prize (1965) De Morgan Medal (1965) |
Philip Hall FRS (11 April 1904, Hampstead, London, England – 30 December 1982, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.
He was educated first at Christ's Hospital, where he won the Thompson Gold Medal for mathematics, and later at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951 and awarded its Sylvester Medal in 1961. He was President of the London Mathematical Society in 1955–1957, and awarded its Berwick Prize in 1958 and De Morgan Medal in 1965.
[edit] See also
- Hall polynomial
- Hall subgroup
- Hall–Littlewood polynomial
- Hall's universal group
- Hall's theorem (marriage theorem)
- Irwin–Hall distribution
[edit] References
- J.E. Roseblade, J.G. Thompson and J.A. Green, Obituary – Philip Hall, Bull. London Math. Soc. 16 (1984) 603–626
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Philip Hall", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Philip Hall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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