Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory and Universal Algebra...

a convex combination of permutation matrices. It was published by Garrett Birkhoff in 1946.: 36  It has many applications. One such application is for...

enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra. It is named after Henri Poincaré, Garrett Birkhoff, and Ernst Witt. The terms PBW type theorem and PBW theorem may also...

named after Garrett Birkhoff. The Birkhoff polytope has n! vertices, one for each permutation on n items. This follows from the Birkhoff–von Neumann theorem...

(relativity) Birkhoff's theorem (electromagnetism) Birkhoff's ergodic theorem It may also refer to theorems named for his son, Garrett Birkhoff: Birkhoff–von Neumann...

studies of 64 students, including John Lennard-Jones, Paul Dirac and Garrett Birkhoff. The Fowler Islands, in Crystal Sound, on the Antarctic Peninsula were...

Birkhoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George David Birkhoff (1884–1944), American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996)...

1936 paper by von Neumann and Garrett Birkhoff, the first to introduce quantum logics, wherein von Neumann and Birkhoff first proved that quantum mechanics...

coefficients as a product of three matrices. The Birkhoff - von Neumann decomposition, introduced by Garrett Birkhoff (George's son) at 1946, is the presentation...

mathematical theory of lattices and ordered sets that was developed by Garrett Birkhoff and others in the 1930s. Formal concept analysis finds practical application...

George David Birkhoff (March 21, 1884 – November 12, 1944) was one of the top American mathematicians of his generation. He made valuable contributions...

Hasse diagrams are named after Helmut Hasse (1898–1979); according to Garrett Birkhoff, they are so called because of the effective use Hasse made of them...

t = u can be proven from the set of equalities. It is named after Garrett Birkhoff. Baader, Franz; Nipkow, Tobias (March 1998). Term Rewriting and All...

third baseman Garrett Baumann (born 2004), American baseball player Garrett Berry (born 2003), American racing driver Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996), American...

Theory. Basel: Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-3-7643-6996-5. Here: Sect.1.2, p.5. Garrett Birkhoff (1967). Lattice Theory. Colloquium Publications. Vol. 25. Providence:...

distributive lattice can be formed in this way. It is named after Garrett Birkhoff, who published a proof of it in 1937. The theorem can be interpreted...

very influential A Survey of Modern Algebra, coauthored in 1941 with Garrett Birkhoff. From then on, it was possible to teach elementary modern algebra to...

stated, albeit in non-rigorous and vague wording, in the 1956 paper of Garrett Birkhoff and Richard S. Pierce in which they first introduced f-rings. The modern...

received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute...

Universal Algebra. Starting in the 1930s, the American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff expanded these ideas and developed many of the foundational concepts...

logical rendering of reality. The replacement derives from the work of Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann on quantum logic. In their work, they showed that...

singular statistical models. A gap in Garrett Birkhoff's original proof was filled by Alexander Ostrowski. Garrett Birkhoff, 1967. Lattice Theory, 3rd ed. Vol...

The formal system takes as its starting point an obs­ervation of Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann, that the structure of experimental tests in classical...

we can define the notions of homomorphism, subalgebra, and product. Garrett Birkhoff proved that a class of algebraic structures of the same signature is...

functions, Quart. Appl. Math., vol. 4, pp. 45–99 and 112–141, 1946. Young, Garrett Birkhoff and applied mathematics, Notices of the AMS, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 1446–1449...

the history of science; it was jointly supervised by mathematician Garrett Birkhoff and historian of science I. Bernard Cohen. Merzbach joined the Smithsonian...

variables. This research area and its name originated in the 1936 paper by Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann, who attempted to reconcile some of the apparent...

10, p. 89. Davey & Priestley (2002), Theorem 10.21, pp. 238–239. Birkhoff, Garrett (1967). Lattice theory (3d ed.). Providence: American Mathematical...

Method of Analytical Geometry of Sig. Bellavitis, link from HathiTrust Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders Mac Lane, 1999 (1967). Algebra, 3rd ed. p. 35, Th. 19...

{\displaystyle r>0} , are pre-compact. The Birkhoff–Kakutani theorem (named after mathematicians Garrett Birkhoff and Shizuo Kakutani) states that the following...