Philip Hall, 11 April 1904 - 30 December 1982

Abstract

Philip Hall, formerly Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, was a mathematician of great influence and distinction. For many years he was the only algebraist working in England . He was pre-eminent as a group theorist and made many fundamental discoveries; the conspicuous growth of interest in group theory this century owes much to him. He was Honorary Secretary from 1938 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1948, and President from 1955 to 1957, of the London Mathematical Society, and its de Morgan Medallist and Larmor Prizeman in 1965. He died on 30 December 1982.