Gordon Pall (26 December 1907 – December 1987) was a Canadian mathematician.Gordon Pall: Fellow Awarded 1940 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation In 1945, he and Lloyd Williams founded the Canadian Mathematical Congress.Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences edited by Ivor Grattan-Guinness
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.Gordon Pall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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.News and Notices: The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 53, No. 7 (Aug - Sep, 1946), pp. 401-405
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
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