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Encyclopedia > Marshall Hall (mathematician)
Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall, Jr.
Marshall Hall, Jr.
Born 17 September 1910
St Louis, Missouri USA
Died 4 July 1990
London, UK
Residence USA
Nationality American
Field Mathematician
Institution Yale University
Ohio State University
Caltech
Alma mater Cambridge University
Yale University
Academic advisor Øystein Ore
Notable students Donald Knuth
Known for Group theory

Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group theory and combinatorics. September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For the United States holiday, the Fourth of July, see Independence Day (United States). ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Leonhard Euler is considered by many to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is the person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... Yale redirects here. ... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Ohio. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Yale redirects here. ... Øystein Ore (7 October 1899 - 13 August 1968) was a Norwegian mathematician. ... Donald Ervin Knuth ( or Ka-NOOTH[1], Chinese: [2]) (b. ... Group theory is that branch of mathematics concerned with the study of groups. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... For the United States holiday, the Fourth of July, see Independence Day (United States). ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Leonhard Euler is considered by many to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is the person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... Group theory is that branch of mathematics concerned with the study of groups. ... Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that studies collections (usually finite) of objects that satisfy specified criteria. ...


He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied further at Cambridge University, returning to Yale to take his Ph.D. in 1936 under the supervision of Oystein Ore. YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment) is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Oystein Ore (7 October 1899 - 13 August 1968) was a Norwegian mathematician. ...


He worked in Naval Intelligence during World War II, and in 1946 took a position at Ohio State University. In 1959 he moved to California Institute of Technology and in 1985 he accepted a post at Emory University. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Ohio. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Marshall Hall died in 1990 in London on his way to a conference to mark his 80th birthday.


He wrote a number of papers of fundamental importance in group theory, including his solution of Burnside's problem for groups of exponent 6, showing that a finitely generated group in which the order of every element divides 6 must be finite. One of the oldest open problems in group theory was first posed by William Burnside in a paper published in 1902. ...


His work in combinatorics includes an important paper of 1943 on projective planes: he also worked on block designs. Projective plane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... You may be looking for block design test In combinatorial mathematics, a block design is a particular kind of set system, which has some long-standing applications to experimental design, as well as some pure combinatorial aspects. ...


Publications

  • M. Hall, Theory of Groups (1959)
  • M. Hall, Combinatorial Theory (1967)

External links

  • O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Marshall Hall jr". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  • Obituary at Ohio State University

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