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 Brian Hartley |
| Known for | Marriage theorem Hall polynomial Hall subgroup Hall-Littlewood polynomial |
| Notable awards | Larmor Prize (1965) De Morgan Medal (1965) |
Philip Hall (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 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
- Marriage theorem
- Hall polynomial
- Hall subgroup
- Hall-Littlewood polynomial
- Hall's universal group
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Philip Hall”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Philip Hall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
[edit] References
- J.E. Roseblade, J.G. Thompson and J.A. Green, Obituary – Philip Hall, Bull. London Math. Soc. 16 (1984) 603-626
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Hall, Philip |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 11 April 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hampstead, London, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 30 December 1982 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Cambridge, England |
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