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

lattice theory. The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father. The son of the mathematician George David Birkhoff, Garrett was born in Princeton...

The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics is awarded jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and...

celebrated ergodic theorem, in an abstract form due to George David Birkhoff. (Actually, Birkhoff's paper considers not the abstract general case but only...

refers to George David Birkhoff, who first studied the problem in 1906. In contrast to Lagrange interpolation and Hermite interpolation, a Birkhoff interpolation...

In mathematics, Birkhoff factorization or Birkhoff decomposition, introduced by George David Birkhoff (1909), is the factorization of an invertible matrix...

Birkhoff's theorem may refer to several theorems named for the American mathematician George David Birkhoff: Birkhoff's theorem (relativity) Birkhoff's...

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

Newtonian gravity. The theorem was proven in 1923 by George David Birkhoff (author of another famous Birkhoff theorem, the pointwise ergodic theorem which lies...

Landmark in 1975 for its association with Harvard University professor George David Birkhoff (1881–1944), one of the most important mathematicians of his time...

Birkhoff decomposition refers to two different mathematical concepts: The Birkhoff factorization, introduced by George David Birkhoff at 1909, is the...

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...

 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...

province of Overijssel. Overisel is the birthplace of mathematician George David Birkhoff, best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem. Bentheim...

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...

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...

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...

with a thesis on differential equations that was supervised by George David Birkhoff. Between 1925 and 1937, he taught at Harvard, Yale University, and...

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...

Paul Rabinowitz of University of Wisconsin. Moser won the first George David Birkhoff Prize in 1968 for contributions to the theory of Hamiltonian dynamical...

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...

Urbain Le Verrier, William Rowan Hamilton, Henri Poincaré and George David Birkhoff, among others. The Euler three-body problem is known by a variety...

Patterns in Saracenic Art G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology George David Birkhoff Aesthetic Measure Douglas Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach Nikos Salingaros...

associated with the all-male Harvard College. There she studied under George David Birkhoff. Her thesis was titled 'Expansion Theorems for Solution of a Fredholm's...

topic of nonlinear differential equations, were carried out by George David Birkhoff, Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Mary Lucy Cartwright and John Edensor...

of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in mathematics. While he was directed by George David Birkhoff to work on differential equations, his interests continued to shift...

1957) Leah Berman (b. 1976) Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974) George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) David Blackwell (1919–2010) Archie Blake (1906-1971) Nathaniel...

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

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...

dissertations, including those of George Birkhoff, Leonard Dickson, Robert Lee Moore (no relation), and Oswald Veblen. Birkhoff and Veblen went on to lead departments...