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Philip Hall
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| Image:Philip Hall.jpg Philip Hall |
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| Born | 11 April 1904 Hampstead, London, England |
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| 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.
- Marriage theorem
- Hall polynomial
- Hall subgroup
- Hall-Littlewood polynomial
- Hall's universal group
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Philip Hall". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Philip Hall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- J.E. Roseblade, J.G. Thompson and J.A. Green, Obituary – Philip Hall, Bull. London Math. Soc. 16 (1984) 603-626
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