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
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 $1941$)
- 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)
- 1962: Ordinary Differential Equations (with Gian-Carlo Rota)
- 1967: Algebra (with Saunders Mac Lane)
- 1970: Modern Applied Algebra (with Thomas C. Bartee)
- 1973: Source Book in Classical Analysis