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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

and Birkhoff's representation theorem states that every finite distributive lattice can be formed in this way. It is named after Garrett Birkhoff, who...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

331–337. Garrett Birkhoff, Hydrodynamics: a study in logic, fact, and similitude, Princeton University Press, 1950 Birkhoff (1950) p. 4. Birkhoff (1950)...

Baseball third baseman Garrett Berry (born 2003), American racing driver Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996), American mathematician Garrett Bradbury (born 1995)...

Naive Set Theory. New York: Springer. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-387-90104-6. Garrett Birkhoff and Saunders Mac Lane, 1999 (1967). Algebra, 3rd ed. p. 35, Th. 19...

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...

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:...

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

Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-78451-1 Advanced monographs: Garrett Birkhoff, 1967. Lattice Theory, 3rd ed. Vol. 25 of AMS Colloquium Publications...

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

Press; (hardcover, 1998). ISBN 0-691-02795-1. Mac Lane, Saunders, Garrett Birkhoff, Algebra, American Mathematical Soc., 1999. ISBN 978-0-8218-1646-2...

axiomisation of the Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics. Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann observed that the propositional calculus in quantum...