Mathematician:Garrett Birkhoff
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Mathematician
American mathematician mainly working in mathematical physics and abstract algebra.
Also wrote plenty of text books: his Lattice Theory (1940) is much cited.
The son of George David Birkhoff.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: January 19, 1911, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Died: November 22, 1996, Water Mill, New York, USA
Theorems and Definitions
- Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem (with John von Neumann)
- Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture (with Richard Scott Pierce)
Results named for Garrett Birkhoff can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Garrett Birkhoff can be found here.
Publications
- 1935: Orthogonality in linear metric spaces (Duke Math. J. Vol. 1: pp. 169 – 172)
- 1936: On the order of groups of automorphisms (with Philip Hall)
- 1940: Lattice Theory, 1st ed.
- 1948: Lattice Theory, 2nd ed.
- 1967: Lattice Theory, 3rd ed.
- 1941: A Survey of Modern Algebra (with Saunders Mac Lane)
- 1965: A Brief Survey of Modern Algebra (with Saunders Mac Lane) (second revised edition of A Survey of Modern Algebra from $1941$)
- 1946: Tres observaciones sobre el algebra lineal (Univ. Nac. Tucumn Rev Ser. A Vol. 5: pp. 147 – 151) (in which Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem is presented)
- 1950: Hydrodynamics: A study in logic, fact, and similitude
- 1956: Lattice-ordered rings (Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 28) (with R. Pierce) (in which the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture was first posited)
- 1957: Jets, Wakes, and Cavities (with E. Zarantello)
- 1959: Ordinary Differential Equations (with Gian-Carlo Rota)
- 1962: Ordinary Differential Equations, 2nd ed. (with Gian-Carlo Rota)
- 1978: Ordinary Differential Equations, 3rd ed. (with Gian-Carlo Rota)
- 1967: Algebra (with Saunders Mac Lane)
- 1970: Modern Applied Algebra (with Thomas C. Bartee)
- 1973: Source Book in Classical Analysis