Birkhoff, Garrett

(gâr`ət bûr`kôf), 1911–96, American mathematician, b. Princeton, N.J.; son of George David BirkhoffBirkhoff, George David,
1884–1944, American mathematician, b. Overisel, Mich.; father of Garrett Birkhoff. The son of a physician, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., 1905) and the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.D.
..... Click the link for more information. . He was educated at Harvard (B.A., 1932) where he was elected a fellow in 1933 and taught until his retirement in 1981. Birkoff has made several important contributions to abstract mathematics, the teaching of mathematics, and mathematical physics. From 1934 on he developed the concept of a lattice, a generalized algebra with two operators, and showed how a number of subjects, e.g., Boolean algebra, projective geometry, and affine geometry, could be treated as special types of lattices. His text A Survey of Modern Algebra (with Saunders MacLane, 1941, 4th ed. 1977) became a standard undergraduate textbook, as did several other books he wrote.

Bibliography

See his Lattice Theory (1940, 3d ed. 1967).

Birkhoff, Garrett

(1911– ) mathematician; born in Princeton, N.J. He taught at Harvard (1936–81), and was a National Academy of Sciences member and consultant to General Motors, the Rand Corporation, and Los Alamos Science Lab. His specialties included modern algebra, fluid mechanics, numerical methods, reactor theory, differential equations, and history of mathematics.

单词	birkhoff, garrett
释义	Birkhoff, Garrett Birkhoff, Garrett (gâr`ət bûr`kôf), 1911–96, American mathematician, b. Princeton, N.J.; son of George David BirkhoffBirkhoff, George David, 1884–1944, American mathematician, b. Overisel, Mich.; father of Garrett Birkhoff. The son of a physician, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., 1905) and the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.D. ..... Click the link for more information. . He was educated at Harvard (B.A., 1932) where he was elected a fellow in 1933 and taught until his retirement in 1981. Birkoff has made several important contributions to abstract mathematics, the teaching of mathematics, and mathematical physics. From 1934 on he developed the concept of a lattice, a generalized algebra with two operators, and showed how a number of subjects, e.g., Boolean algebra, projective geometry, and affine geometry, could be treated as special types of lattices. His text A Survey of Modern Algebra (with Saunders MacLane, 1941, 4th ed. 1977) became a standard undergraduate textbook, as did several other books he wrote. Bibliography See his Lattice Theory (1940, 3d ed. 1967). Birkhoff, Garrett (1911– ) mathematician; born in Princeton, N.J. He taught at Harvard (1936–81), and was a National Academy of Sciences member and consultant to General Motors, the Rand Corporation, and Los Alamos Science Lab. His specialties included modern algebra, fluid mechanics, numerical methods, reactor theory, differential equations, and history of mathematics.
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