Gordon Pall (26 December 1907 – December 1987) was a Canadian mathematician.[1] In 1945, he and Lloyd Williams founded the Canadian Mathematical Congress.[2]
Education and career
editGordon Pall got a B.A. at the University of Manitoba in 1926, an M.A. at the University of Toronto in 1927,[1] and a Ph.D. in 1929 under Leonard Eugene Dickson with the dissertation "Problems in Additive Theory of Numbers" at the University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1929.[3]
In 1931, he became a Lecturer in Mathematics at McGill University, becoming an Assistant Professor in 1934.[1] In 1946, he was appointed to a professorship at Illinois Institute of Technology.[4]
Selected publications
edit- On Generalized Quaternions Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (1946), pp. 280–332
- Discriminantal Divisors of Binary Quadratic Forms, Journal of Number Theory, Vol 1, Issue 4, October 1969, Pages 525-533
References
edit- ^ a b c Gordon Pall: Fellow Awarded 1940 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- ^ Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences edited by Ivor Grattan-Guinness
- ^ Gordon Pall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ News and Notices: The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 53, No. 7 (Aug - Sep, 1946), pp. 401-405
External links
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