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    The George D. Birkhoff House is a historic house, at 22 Craigie Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975...
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    problem, and general relativity. Today, Birkhoff is best remembered for the ergodic theorem. The George D. Birkhoff House, his residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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    Retrieved November 17, 2012. "NHL Summary Description of George D. Birkhoff House". National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2009...
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    George D. Birkhoff House...
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    John von Neumann (category Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C.)
    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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    is used, for example, in Euclid's Elements, see D. Joyce's web edition of Book VII. Mac Lane & Birkhoff (1999, p. 15) include zero in the natural numbers:...
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    PhD in mathematics at Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation was The Coloring of Graphs, written under the supervision of George David Birkhoff....
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    University for a year and half. Kosambi studied mathematics under George David Birkhoff, who wanted him to concentrate on mathematics, but the ambitious...
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  • Bibcode:1939RSPSA.173..211F. doi:10.1098/rspa.1939.0140. S2CID 123189221. Birkhoff, G. D. (1943). "Matter, electricity and gravitation in flat space-time". Proceedings...
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    Interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996), mathematician best known for his work in lattice theory Cyril...
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    university and in particular the antipathy of Harvard mathematician G. D. Birkhoff. He was also rejected for a position at the University of Melbourne....
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  • established his reputation early on in 1946, soon after completing his Ph.D. dissertation, by solving the Kline sphere characterization problem. In 1948...
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  • Brian J. McCartin (PhD 1981), recipient of the 2010 Chauvenet Prize, Cathleen Morawetz (PhD 1950), National Medal of Science, Birkhoff Prize, Lifetime Achievement...
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    GRADS IN PSYCHOLOGY TEST 3,000 Return to Campus and Attend Meetings -- George Beach New Head of Federation" (PDF). The New York Times. 13 February 1923...
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  • gained a PhD from Harvard University in 1947. His thesis was titled Axially Symmetric Harmonic Functions and he was advised by Garrett Birkhoff. Caywood...
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    logic: "Any serious attempt to study the contemporary work of Tarski or Birkhoff should begin with a serious study of the most significant founders of their...
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    Neumann's house, he encountered G. D. Birkhoff, who suggested that he apply for a position with the Harvard Society of Fellows. Following up on Birkhoff's suggestion...
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    given by the art critic Robert Kudielka. The American mathematician George Birkhoff's 1933 Aesthetic Measure proposes a quantitative metric of the aesthetic...
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  • S2CID 3998725. [https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-David-Birkhoff George David Birkhoff American mathematician] "Frank, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand...
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  • 1927, Ph.D. 1928) George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) – Bôcher Memorial Prize winner Archie Blake (S.M. 1931, Ph.D. 1937) Gilbert Ames Bliss (Ph.D. 1900) Alberto...
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  • worked under the direction of George Howard Darwin. In the summer of 1888, Darwin suggested that he study the papers of George William Hill on the lunar theory...
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  • Berkeley School of Law, at the University of Cambridge (1991-92). Garrett Birkhoff, American mathematician, at the University of Cambridge (1932–33). Carmen...
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    Gyula 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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    (1881). German, Flemish and Dutch Painting. Scribner and Welford. p. 24. George Haggerty (2013). Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures. Taylor & Francis...
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    Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin) (in German). 23: 215–228. Birkhoff, G, Zarantonello. E (1957) Jets, wakes and cavities. New York: Academic...
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    The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--the Stalin Era. Random House. "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association...
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    matrix A onto a linear subspace spanned by the columns of B. Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem: every area-preserving, orientation-preserving homeomorphism of...
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    Commons has media related to Robert Simpson Woodward. Robert Simpson Woodward House This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public...
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  • Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names...
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  • 1961) March 17 – Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (died 1934) March 21 – George D. Birkhoff, mathematician (died 1944) March 22 – Arthur H. Vandenberg, U.S. senator...
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