Philip Hall | |
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 Philip Hall | |
| Born | 11 April 1904 London, England |
| Died | 30 December 1982 (aged 78) Cambridge, England |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Hall's marriage theorem Hall polynomial Hall subgroup Hall–Littlewood polynomial |
| Awards | Senior Berwick Prize (1958) Sylvester Medal (1961) Larmor Prize (1965) De Morgan Medal (1965) Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | Karl Pearson |
| Doctoral students | Paul Cohn James Green Brian Hartley Bernhard Neumann Derek J. S. Robinson Derek Taunt Karl W. Gruenberg |
| Other notable students | Garrett 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.