- English mathematician
who specialized in the study of group theory.
Hall was born in London and studied at Cambridge, where he spent his
whole career. He was professor of pure mathematics 1953-67.
In 1928 Hall began a study of prime power groups. From this work he
developed his 1933 theory of regular groups. An investigation of the
conditions under which finite groups are soluble led him in 1937 to
postulate a general structure theory for finite soluble groups. In 1954,
he published an examination of finitely generated soluble groups in
which he demonstrated that they could be divided into two classes of
unequal size. At the end of the 1950s Hall turned to the subject of
simple groups, and later also examined non-strictly-simple groups.
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