Philip Hall

For other people of the same name, see Phil Hall (disambiguation).

Philip Hall
Philip Hall
Born	11 April 1904(1904-04-11) Hampstead, London, England
Died	30 December 1982(1982-12-30) (aged 78) Cambridge, England
Residence	UK
Nationality	British
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Cambridge University
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Doctoral students	Garrett Birkhoff Bernhard Neumann James Green Paul Cohn Brian Hartley
Known for	Marriage theorem Hall polynomial Hall subgroup Hall–Littlewood polynomial
Influences	Karl Pearson William Burnside
Notable awards	Larmor Prize (1965) De Morgan Medal (1965)

Philip Hall FRS (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.

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

Publications

• Hall, Philip (1934), "A Contribution to the Theory of Groups of Prime-Power Order", Proc. London Math. Soc. 36 (1): 29–95, doi:10.1112/plms/s2-36.1.29 
• Hall, P.; Higman, Graham (1956), "On the p-length of p-soluble groups and reduction theorems for Burnside's problem", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series 6: 1–42, doi:10.1112/plms/s3-6.1.1, MR0072872 
• Hall, Philip (1988), The collected works of Philip Hall, Oxford Science Publications, The Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-853254-5, MR986732, http://books.google.com/books?id=F-vuAAAAMAAJ 

References

• Green, J. A.; Roseblade, J. E.; Thompson, John G. (1984), "Obituary: Philip Hall", The Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 16 (6): 603–626, doi:10.1112/blms/16.6.603, ISSN 0024-6093, MR758133 
• Gruenberg, K. W.; Roseblade, J. E., eds. (1984), Group theory. Essays for Philip Hall., Boston, MA: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-304880-6, MR0780565 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Philip Hall", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hall.html .
• Philip Hall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.