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Canadian mathematician
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Male
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Birth:
26 December 1907(Winnipeg, Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, Manitoba, Canada)
Death:
December 1987
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Education:
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Winnipeg Metropolitan Region, Canada
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Chicago
Chicago, Cook County, USA
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McGill University
Montreal, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Canada
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, Mercer County, USA
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, USA
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Biography
Introduction
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 got 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
- 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