Philip Hall

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Philip Hall

Image:Philip Hall.jpg Philip Hall
Born	11 April 1904 Hampstead, London, England
Died	30 December 1982 Cambridge, England
Residence	UK
Nationality	British
Field	Mathematician
Institution	Cambridge University
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Academic advisor	Karl Pearson
Notable students	Garrett Birkhoff Bernhard Neumann James Green
Known for	Marriage theorem Hall polynomial Hall subgroup Hall-Littlewood polynomial
Notable prizes	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., and Edmund F. Robertson. "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