Philip Hall


Philip Hall FRS, 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.

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