Hubert Stanley Wall
| Hubert Stanley Wall | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 2, 1902 Rockwell City, Iowa |
| Died | September 12, 1971 (aged 68) Austin, Texas |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions |
Northwestern University Institute for Advanced Study Illinois Institute of Technology University of Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Burr Van Vleck |
| Doctoral students | Dan Mauldin, Coke Reed |
| Known for |
Continued fractions Moore method |
Hubert Stanley Wall (December 2, 1902 – September 12, 1971) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in the field of continued fractions. He is also known as one of the leading proponents of the Moore method of teaching.
Wall was born in Rockwell City, Iowa on December 2, 1902. He received the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa in 1924. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin–Madison) in 1927.
He married Mary Kate Parker, a lawyer and Texas assistant Attorney General. Her specialty was election law.
Upon receiving his Ph.D. Wall joined the faculty at Northwestern University and stayed until 1944 except for the academic year 1938–1939 when he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He then went to the Illinois Institute of Technology for two years before moving in 1946 to the University of Texas where he spent the rest of his career. He became an emeritus professor in 1970.
Most of Wall's mathematical research was in various aspects of the analytic theory of continued fractions. This included the theory of positive-definite continued fractions, convergence results for continued fractions, parabola theorems, Hausdorff moments, and Hausdorff summability. He studied the polynomials now named Wall polynomials after him.
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