Philip Hall

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

Philip Hall
File:Philip Hall.jpg Philip Hall
Born	(1904-04-11)11 April 1904 Hampstead, London, England
Died	Cambridge, England
Residence	UK
Nationality	British
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Academic advisors	Karl Pearson
Doctoral students	Paul Cohn James Green Brian Hartley Bernhard Neumann Derek Taunt
Other notable students	Garrett Birkhoff Alfred Goldie
Known for	Hall's marriage theorem Hall polynomial Hall subgroup Hall–Littlewood polynomial
Influences	Karl Pearson William Burnside
Notable awards	Senior Berwick Prize (1958) Sylvester Medal (1961) Larmor Prize (1965) De Morgan Medal (1965) Fellow of the Royal Society

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

• Hall polynomial
• Hall subgroup
• Hall–Higman theorem
• Hall–Littlewood polynomial
• Hall's universal group
• Hall's marriage theorem
• Irwin–Hall distribution