Politician, lawyer, philosopher, writer and opinion leader. | University of the Andes, New York University | Popayán: January 19, 1978 - June 25, 2022
Garrett Birkhoff
- Princeton: January 19, 1911 celebration
- Water Mill: November 22, 1996 celebration


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Garrett Birkhoff -
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celebration Date of birth
Princeton: January 19, 1911 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Water Mill: November 22, 1996 -
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engineering Field of Work
- mathematics
- algebra
- applied mathematics
- abstract algebra
- ballistics
- lattice
- universal algebra
- hydrodynamics
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school Education
- University of Cambridge
- Harvard University
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
- Princeton University
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- honorary doctor of the University of Lille (1960)
- Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1974)
- George David Birkhoff Prize (1978)
- Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1951)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1947)
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social_leaderboard Notable Works
- Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem
- Birkhoff polytope
- Pierce–Birkhoff conjecture
- Birkhoff's representation theorem
- A Survey of Modern Algebra
- Birkhoff algorithm
- American mathematician (1911–1996) | honorary doctor of the University of Lille (1960), Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1974), George David Birkhoff