Mathematician:Garrett Birkhoff

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 Polytope
 * Birkhoff's Representation Theorem
 * Birkhoff's HSP Theorem
 * Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture (with Richard S. Pierce)

Books and Papers

 * 1936: On the order of groups of automorphisms (with Philip Hall)
 * 1940: Lattice Theory
 * 1941: A Survey of Modern Algebra (with Saunders Mac Lane) ISBN 1-56881-068-7
 * 1950: Hydrodynamics: A study in logic, fact, and similitude
 * 1956: Lattice-ordered rings (with R. Pierce) (in which the Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture was first posited)
 * 1957: Jets, Wakes, and Cavities (with E. Zarantello)
 * 1962: Ordinary Differential Equations (with Gian-Carlo Rota)
 * 1967: Algebra (with Saunders Mac Lane) ISBN 0-8218-1646-2
 * 1970: Modern Applied Algebra (with Thomas Bartee)
 * 1973: Source Book in Classical Analysis