Philip Hall

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Nationality British Role Mathematician Fields Mathematician Residence United Kingdom		Academic advisors Karl Pearson Awards De Morgan Medal Name Philip Hall

Born 11 April 1904Hampstead, London, England ( 1904-04-11 ) Institutions University of Cambridge Alma mater University of Cambridge Doctoral students Paul CohnJames GreenBrian HartleyBernhard NeumannDerek Taunt Died December 30, 1982, Cambridge Books The collected works of Philip Hall, Jobseekers Guide to a Galaxy Education University of Cambridge, King's College, Cambridge Similar People Bernhard Neumann, Sandy Green, William Burnside, Garrett Birkhoff, Karl Pearson

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.

Publications

Hall, P. (1934). "A Contribution to the Theory of Groups of Prime-Power Order". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society: 29–07. doi:10.1112/plms/s2-36.1.29.

Hall, P.; Higman, G. (1956). "On the p-Length of p-Soluble Groups and Reduction Theorems for Burnside's Problem". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society: 1. doi:10.1112/plms/s3-6.1.1.

Hall, Philip (1988), The collected works of Philip Hall, Oxford Science Publications, The Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-853254-5, MR 986732

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