Gordon Pall

Gordon Pall (26 December 1907 – December 1987) was a Canadian mathematician. In 1945, he and Lloyd Williams founded the Canadian Mathematical Congress.

Education and career

Gordon Pall earned a B.A. at the University of Manitoba in 1926, an M.A. at the University of Toronto in 1927, 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.

In 1931, he became a lecturer in mathematics at McGill University, becoming an assistant professor in 1934. In 1946, he was appointed to a professorship at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gordon Pall: Fellow Awarded 1940 Archived 2022-08-16 at the Wayback Machine John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  2. ↑ Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences edited by Ivor Grattan-Guinness
  3. ↑ Gordon Pall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ News and Notices: The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 53, No. 7 (Aug - Sep, 1946), pp. 401-405