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Philip Hall
Born (1904-04-11)11 April 1904
London, England
Died 30 December 1982(1982-12-30) (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 Taunt
Karl W. Gruenberg
Other notable students Garrett Birkhoff
Alfred Goldie
Influences Karl Pearson
William Burnside

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

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

  • Abstract clone
  • Commutator collecting process
  • Isoclinism of groups
  • Regular p-group
  • Three subgroups lemma
  • Hall algebra, and Hall polynomials
  • Hall subgroup
  • Hall–Higman theorem
  • Hall–Littlewood polynomial
  • Hall's universal group
  • Hall's marriage theorem
  • Hall word
  • Hall–Witt identity
  • Irwin–Hall distribution
  • Zappa–Szép product
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