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Garrett Birkhoff was born on 19 January, 1911 in Princeton, New Jersey, US, is an American mathematician (1911–1996). Discover Garrett Birkhoff's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 19 January 1911
Birthday 19 January
Birthplace Princeton, New Jersey, US
Date of death 22 November, 1996
Died Place Water Mill, New York, US
Nationality United States

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1884

The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father.

The son of the mathematician George David Birkhoff, Garrett was born in Princeton, New Jersey.

1898

Birkhoff's approach to this development of universal algebra and lattice theory acknowledged prior ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce, Ernst Schröder, and Alfred North Whitehead; in fact, Whitehead had written an 1898 monograph entitled Universal Algebra.

During and after World War II, Birkhoff's interests gravitated towards what he called "engineering" mathematics.

During the war, he worked on radar aiming and ballistics, including the bazooka.

In the development of weapons, mathematical questions arose, some of which had not yet been addressed by the literature on fluid dynamics.

1911

Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician.

He is best known for his work in lattice theory.

1928

He began the Harvard University BA course in 1928 after less than seven years of prior formal education.

1930

During the 1930s, Birkhoff, along with his Harvard colleagues Marshall Stone and Saunders Mac Lane, substantially advanced American teaching and research in abstract algebra.

A number of papers he wrote in the 1930s, culminating in his monograph, Lattice Theory (1940; the third edition remains in print), turned lattice theory into a major branch of abstract algebra.

1932

Upon completing his Harvard BA in 1932, he went to Cambridge University to study mathematical physics but switched to studying abstract algebra under Philip Hall.

While visiting the University of Munich, he met Carathéodory who pointed him towards two important texts, Van der Waerden on abstract algebra and Speiser on group theory.

1933

Birkhoff held no Ph.D., a qualification British higher education did not emphasize at that time, and did not even bother obtaining an M.A. Nevertheless, after being a member of Harvard's Society of Fellows, 1933–36, he spent the rest of his career teaching at Harvard.

1935

His 1935 paper, "On the Structure of Abstract Algebras" founded a new branch of mathematics, universal algebra.

1941

In 1941 he and Mac Lane published A Survey of Modern Algebra, the second undergraduate textbook in English on the subject (Cyrus Colton MacDuffee's An Introduction to Abstract Algebra was published in 1940).

1948

He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1948–1949 and the president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for 1966–1968.

1950

Birkhoff's research was presented in his texts on fluid dynamics, Hydrodynamics (1950) and Jets, Wakes and Cavities (1957).

Birkhoff, a friend of John von Neumann, took a close interest in the rise of the electronic computer.

Birkhoff supervised the Ph.D. thesis of David M. Young on the numerical solution of the partial differential equation of Poisson, in which Young proposed the successive over-relaxation (SOR) method.

Birkhoff then worked with Richard S. Varga, a former student, who was employed at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory of the Westinghouse Electronic Corporation in Pittsburgh and was helping to design nuclear reactors.

Extending the results of Young, the Birkhoff–Varga collaboration led to many publications on positive operators and iterative methods for p-cyclic matrices.

Birkhoff's research and consulting work (notably for General Motors) developed computational methods besides numerical linear algebra, notably the representation of smooth curves via cubic splines.

Birkhoff published more than 200 papers and supervised more than 50 Ph.D.s. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1967

Mac Lane and Birkhoff's Algebra (1967) is a more advanced text on abstract algebra.

1974

He won a Lester R. Ford Award in 1974.