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Contents Vol 36(1)

Gordon Elliott (Tim) Wall, 11 March 1925–13 July 2023

Gustav Lehrer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7918-7650 A *
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A School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.

* Correspondence to: gustav.lehrer@sydney.edu.au

Historical Records of Australian Science 36, HR24032 https://doi.org/10.1071/HR24032
Published online: 14 April 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Academy of Science. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

G. E. (Tim) Wall was one of Australia’s leading algebraists, whose work intersected many of the important algebraic themes of his era (roughly 1960–95). This biographical memoir follows his life from his birth in 1925 in Adelaide, through his professional career, mostly at the University of Sydney, giving some details of his family, personal interactions and research.

Keywords: algebra, group theory, invariants, matrix theory, quadratic forms, Tim Wall.

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