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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  •  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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    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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