Mathematician:Hubert Stanley Wall

Mathematician
American mathematician who worked primarily in the field of continued fractions.

One of the leading proponents of the Moore method of teaching.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 2nd December 1902 in Rockwell City, Iowa
 * 1924: Received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa
 * 1927: Received Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin–Madison)
 * 1927: Joined faculty at Northwestern University
 * 1938: Rescued from almost certain death in Dachau by arranging a place for him at Northwestern University
 * 1944: Moved to Illinois Institute of Technology
 * 1946: Moved to University of Texas
 * 1970: Became Emeritus Professor
 * Died: 12th September 1971 in Austin, Texas

Theorems and Definitions

 * Wall Polynomial

Publications

 * 1927: On the Padé Approximants Associated with the Continued Fraction and Series of Stieltjes (Ph.D. Thesis)
 * 1929: On extended Stieltjes series
 * 1931: On the Padé approximants associated with a positive definite power series
 * 1932: Convergence criteria for continued fractions
 * 1932: General theorems on the convergence of sequences of Padé approximants
 * 1932: On the relationship among the diagonal files of a Padé table
 * 1932: On the expansion of an integral of Stieltjes
 * 1933: On the continued fractions which represent meromorphic functions
 * 1948: Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions
 * 1963: Creative Mathematics
 * 1963: Creative Mathematics