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    George David Birkhoff (March 21, 1884 – November 12, 1944) was one of the top American mathematicians of his generation. He made valuable contributions...
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  • lattice theory. The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father. The son of the mathematician George David Birkhoff, Garrett was born in Princeton...
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  • The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics is awarded jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and...
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    Newtonian gravity. The theorem was proven in 1923 by George David Birkhoff (author of another famous Birkhoff theorem, the pointwise ergodic theorem which lies...
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  • celebrated ergodic theorem, in an abstract form due to George David Birkhoff. (Actually, Birkhoff's paper considers not the abstract general case but only...
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  • Birkhoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George David Birkhoff (1884–1944), American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996)...
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  • refers to George David Birkhoff, who first studied the problem in 1906. In contrast to Lagrange interpolation and Hermite interpolation, a Birkhoff interpolation...
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  • Birkhoff's theorem may refer to several theorems named for the American mathematician George David Birkhoff: Birkhoff's theorem (relativity) Birkhoff's...
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    Landmark in 1975 for its association with Harvard University professor George David Birkhoff (1881–1944), one of the most important mathematicians of his time...
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  •  Theorem 2.1), and is more or less equivalent to Birkhoff factorization introduced by George David Birkhoff (1909). More precisely, the statement of the theorem...
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  • Birkhoff decomposition refers to two different mathematical concepts: The Birkhoff factorization, introduced by George David Birkhoff at 1909, is the...
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  • In mathematics, Birkhoff factorization or Birkhoff decomposition, introduced by George David Birkhoff (1909), is the factorization of an invertible matrix...
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  • from a bequest of Leroy P. Steele, and were set up in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood and William Caspar Graustein. The way the prizes...
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  • Patterns in Saracenic Art G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology George David Birkhoff Aesthetic Measure Douglas Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach Nikos Salingaros...
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    Rolf Schock Prize for Mathematics. In 2024 he will be awarded the George David Birkhoff Prize. Birth Place Ronald Coifman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project...
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    function of the number of colors and was originally defined by George David Birkhoff to study the four color problem. It was generalised to the Tutte...
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    province of Overijssel. Overisel is the birthplace of mathematician George David Birkhoff, best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem. Bentheim...
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    with a thesis on differential equations that was supervised by George David Birkhoff. Between 1925 and 1937, he taught at Harvard, Yale University, and...
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    Motion of a Surface of Negative Curvature, under the direction of George David Birkhoff. Morse was a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard in 1919–1920...
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    systems of two degrees of freedom), along the line of the work of George David Birkhoff, Marston Morse, Gustav A. Hedlund, et al. This theory is now known...
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  • Springer-Verlag. pp. 125–126. ISBN 0-387-00173-5. Morse, Marston (1946). "George David Birkhoff and his mathematical work, VI. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, (a) Fixed points...
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  • Anson Coons from MIT; James Ferguson from Boeing; Carl de Boor, George David Birkhoff and Garibedian from GM in the 1960s; and W. Gordon and R. Riesenfeld...
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    Coloring of Graphs, written under the supervision of George David Birkhoff. At Harvard, Birkhoff also got him a job as Instructor of Mathematics for the...
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    topic of nonlinear differential equations, were carried out by George David Birkhoff, Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Mary Lucy Cartwright and John Edensor...
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    paper by von Neumann and Garrett Birkhoff, the first to introduce quantum logics, wherein von Neumann and Birkhoff first proved that quantum mechanics...
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  • In 1932, G. D. Birkhoff created a set of four postulates of Euclidean geometry in the plane, sometimes referred to as Birkhoff's axioms. These postulates...
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  • Paul Rabinowitz of University of Wisconsin. Moser won the first George David Birkhoff Prize in 1968 for contributions to the theory of Hamiltonian dynamical...
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  • 1957) Leah Berman (b. 1976) Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974) George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) David Blackwell (1919–2010) Archie Blake (b. 1906) Nathaniel...
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    Haar, Dénes Kőnig, Rudolf Ortvay [hu], on chairs: József Kürschák, George David Birkhoff, O.D. Kellog, Lipót Fejér, sitting on the floor: Tibor Radó, István...
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  • Schwarzschild solution without Einstein vacuum field equations 1923 — George David Birkhoff proves that the Schwarzschild spacetime geometry is the unique spherically...
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