Mathematician:Garrett Birkhoff

Mathematician
American mathematician mainly working in mathematical physics and abstract algebra.

Also wrote plenty of text books: his (1940) is much cited.

The son of.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: January 19, 1911, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
 * Died: November 22, 1996, Water Mill, New York, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Birkhoff Polytope


 * Birkhoff's HSP Theorem
 * Birkhoff's Representation Theorem


 * Birkhoff-James Orthogonality (with )


 * Birkhoff-Kakutani Theorem (with )
 * Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem (with )
 * Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture (with )

Publications

 * 1936: On the order of groups of automorphisms (with )
 * 1936: On the order of groups of automorphisms (with )


 * 1940:
 * 1948:
 * 1967:


 * 1941: (with )
 * 1965: A Brief Survey of Modern Algebra (with ) (second revised edition of from $1941$)




 * 1950: Hydrodynamics: A study in logic, fact, and similitude
 * 1956: Lattice-ordered rings (Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 28) (with ) (in which the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture was first posited)
 * 1957: Jets, Wakes, and Cavities (with )


 * 1959: (with )
 * 1962: (with )
 * 1978: (with )


 * 1967: (with )
 * 1970: Modern Applied Algebra (with )
 * 1973: Source Book in Classical Analysis