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 See also Abstract clone Commutator collecting process Isoclinism of groups Regular p-group Three subgroups lemma Hall algebra, and Hall polynomials Hall subgroup Hall–Higman theorem Hall–Littlewood polynomial Hall's universal group Hall's marriage theorem Hall word Hall–Witt identity Irwin–Hall distribution Zappa–Szép product References 1904 births 1982 deaths 20th-century English mathematicians Algebraists Group theorists People educated at Christ's Hospital Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Bletchley Park people Presidents of the London Mathematical Society Sadleirian Professors of Pure Mathematics