Philip Hall
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Born | Hampstead, London, England |
11 April 1904
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Cambridge, England |
Residence | UK |
Nationality | British |
Fields | Mathematician |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Academic advisors | Karl Pearson |
Doctoral students | Paul Cohn James Green Brian Hartley Bernhard Neumann Derek Taunt |
Other notable students | Garrett Birkhoff Alfred Goldie |
Known for | Hall's marriage theorem Hall polynomial Hall subgroup Hall–Littlewood polynomial |
Influences | Karl Pearson William Burnside |
Notable awards | Senior Berwick Prize (1958) Sylvester Medal (1961) Larmor Prize (1965) De Morgan Medal (1965) Fellow of the Royal Society |
Philip Hall FRS[1] (11 April 1904 – 30 December 1982), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory,[2][3] notably on finite groups and solvable groups.[4][5][6][7][8]
Biography
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.
See also
- Hall polynomial
- Hall subgroup
- Hall–Higman theorem
- Hall–Littlewood polynomial
- Hall's universal group
- Hall's marriage theorem
- Irwin–Hall distribution
References
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