Career
He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied for a year at Cambridge University under a Henry Fellowship working with G.H. Hardy. He returned to Yale to take his Ph.D. in 1936 under the supervision of Øystein Ore.
He worked in Naval Intelligence during World War II, including six months in 1944 at Bletchley Park, the center of British wartime code breaking. In 1946 he took a position at The Ohio State University. In 1959 he moved to the California Institute of Technology where, in 1973, he was named the first IBM Professor at Caltech, the first named chair in mathematics. After retiring from Caltech in 1981, he accepted a post at Emory University in 1985.
Hall died in 1990 in London on his way to a conference to mark his 80th birthday.
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