Hubert Stanley Wall (December 2, 1902 – September 12, 1971)[2][3] was an American mathematician who worked primarily in the field of continued fractions.
[3] He married Mary Kate Parker, a lawyer and Texas assistant Attorney General.
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.
[3] 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.
"[4]: 285 The University of Texas memorial to Wall suggests that he may have picked up some of these ideas at Northwestern from Van Vleck and Hellinger and says, "Since there were already people on the Texas faculty who had used innovative techniques (chiefly Robert Lee Moore and some of his colleagues), Wall tried their methods.