Philip Hall

Philip Hall
Philip Hall
Born(1904-04-11)11 April 1904
London, England
Died30 December 1982(1982-12-30) (aged 78)
Cambridge, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forHall's marriage theorem
Hall polynomial
Hall subgroup
Hall–Littlewood polynomial
AwardsSenior Berwick Prize (1958)
Sylvester Medal (1961)
Larmor Prize (1965)
De Morgan Medal (1965)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Academic advisorsKarl Pearson
Doctoral studentsPaul Cohn
James Green
Brian Hartley
Bernhard Neumann
Derek J. S. Robinson
Derek Taunt
Karl W. Gruenberg
Other notable studentsGarrett Birkhoff
Alfred Goldie

Philip Hall FRS[1] (11 April 1904 – 30 December 1982), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.[2][3]

  1. ^ Green, J. A.; Roseblade, J. E.; Thompson, J. G. (1984). "Philip Hall. 11 April 1904–30 December 1982". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 30: 250–279. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1984.0009. JSTOR 769827.
  2. ^ Gruenberg, K. W.; Roseblade, J. E., eds. (1984), Group theory. Essays for Philip Hall., Boston, MA: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-304880-6, MR 0780565
  3. ^ Green, J. A.; Roseblade, J. E.; Thompson, J. G. (1984). "Obituary: Philip Hall". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 16 (6): 603. doi:10.1112/blms/16.6.603.

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