Polish mathematician, economist, athletics competitor | University of Warsaw | March 21, 1980 - Poznań: February 23, 2024 | Michał Bernardelli (Michal
George David Birkhoff
- Overisel Township: March 21, 1884 celebration
- Cambridge: November 12, 1944 celebration
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celebration Date of birth
Overisel Township: March 21, 1884 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Cambridge: November 12, 1944 -
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engineering Field of Work
- mathematics
- number theory
- topology
- three-body problem
- ergodic theory
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- Harry Vandiver
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school Education
- Harvard University
- University of Chicago
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trophy Awards & Honors
- Bôcher Memorial Prize (1923)
- doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1936)
- honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers (1933)
- Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1926)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1943)
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social_leaderboard Notable Works
- Birkhoff's theorem
- Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem
- ergodic theorem
- Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem
- Birkhoff's axioms
- Birkhoff interpolation
- Birkhoff–Khinchin theorem
- Birkhoff factorization
- Birkhoff polytope
- Birkhoff–Grothendieck theorem
- Birkhoff–Kellogg invariant-direction theorem
- Birkhoff's representation theorem
- Birkhoff orthogonality
- American mathematician (1884-1944) | Bôcher Memorial Prize (1923), doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1936), honorary doctor of the University