Philip Hall
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For other people with the same name, see Phil Hall (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Marshall Hall (mathematician).
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]
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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 J. S. Robinson Derek Taunt Karl W. Gruenberg |
Other notable students | Garrett Birkhoff Alfred Goldie |
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