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	George David Birkhoff - Career, Influence on hiring practices
		Birkhoff was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation, and during his prime he was considered by many to be the preeminent American mathematician.
		His 1943 theory of gravitation is also puzzling, since Birkhoff knew (but didn't seem to mind) that his theory allows as sources only matter which is a perfect fluid in which the speed of sound must equal the speed of light (which, needless to say, is quite inconsistent with experiment!).
		While Birkhoff may have held anti-Semitic views, it was also the case that he had always been outspoken in his promotion of American mathematics and mathematicians.
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	Birkhoff, George David
		Birkhoff was born at Overisel, Michigan, and studied at the University of Chicago and at Harvard.
		With John Von Neumann, Birkhoff was chiefly responsible for establishing, in the 1930s, the modern science of ergodics.
		Birkhoff also transformed the Maxwell-Boltzmann hypothesis of the kinetic theory of gases, which was undermined by the number of exceptions found to it, into a vigorous principle.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/MainBiographies/B/Birkhoff/1.html (222 words)

	George David Birkhoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George David Birkhoff (21 March 1884, Overisel, Michigan - 12 November 1944, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem.
		In 1923, Birkhoff also proved that the Schwarzschild geometry is the unique spherically symmetric solution of the Einstein field equations.
		Birkhoff's most durable result has been his 1931 discovery of what is now called the ergodic theorem.
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	Birkhoff, George David (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Birkhoff was born at Overisel, Michigan, and studied at the University of Chicago and at Harvard.
		With John Von Neumann, Birkhoff was chiefly responsible for establishing, in the 1930s, the modern science of ergodics.
		Birkhoff also transformed the Maxwell-Boltzmann hypothesis of the kinetic theory of gases, which was undermined by the number of exceptions found to it, into a vigorous principle.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Birkhoff/1.html (222 words)

	Birkhoff
		George Birkhoff was a student at the Lewis Institute in Chicago from 1896 to 1902.
		Birkhoff returned to Chicago in 1905 to study for his doctorate which was awarded in 1907.
		George D Birkhoff was elected an honorary member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in 1926.
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	Ivars Peterson's MathTrek - A Measure of Beauty
		Birkhoff's formula and its potential applications—to such creations as vases, architectural designs, melodies, and even poetry—were intriguing enough to be the subject of an article in the March 17, 1934, issue of Science News Letter (now known as Science News).
		Birkhoff himself attempted to apply the principles embedded in his formula to the composition of a poem.
		Birkhoff himself conceded that an intuitive appreciation is better than any attempt to analyze the source of one's delight in a beautiful object.
	www.maa.org /mathland/mathtrek_05_24_04.html (1081 words)

	RSE Obituary
		George David Birkhoff was born at Overisel, Mich., U.S.A., on March 21, 1884, and died on November 12, 1944.
		This is not the place to discuss whether Birkhoff had not embarked on a vain task in attempting to found an analytical theory of aesthetics.
		Professor Birkhoff was a prominent member of the International Congresses of Mathematicians held between the two wars, and formed a valuable link between American men of science and their colleagues in Europe.
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	Birkhoff biography
		George was educated in Chicago where he was a student at the Lewis Institute from 1896 to 1902.
		Birkhoff taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as an instructor from 1907 to 1909.
		Because Birkhoff worked on so many different mathematical topics it is difficult to do justice to the range of his contributions in a biography of this length.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Birkhoff.html (1594 words)

	Math Trek: A Measure of Beauty, Science News Online, May 22, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Birkhoff's formula and its potential applications—to such creations as vases, architectural designs, melodies, and even poetry—were intriguing enough to be the subject of an article in the March 17, 1934, issue of Science News Letter (now known as Science News).
		Birkhoff himself attempted to apply the principles embedded in his formula to the composition of a poem.
		Birkhoff himself conceded that an intuitive appreciation is better than any attempt to analyze the source of one's delight in a beautiful object.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20040522/mathtrek.asp (1183 words)

	Birkhoff, George David (1884-1944) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
		Birkhoff was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1907.
		Birkhoff conducted research mainly in mathematical analysis and analysis applied to dynamics.
		He studied periodic orbits and three-body problems within general theory of dynamic systems and ergodic theory, and found the existence of an infinite number of periodic solutions to the restricted three-body problem.
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	George David Birkhoff - FREE George David Birkhoff Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		The son of a physician, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., 1905) and the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.D., 1907) After teaching shortly at Chicago and Princeton, he joined the faculty at Harvard (1912) where he taught until his death.
		Birkhoff, perhaps the first American mathematician of international repute, is known for his work on linear differential equations and difference equations.
		LAW NEIL BIRKHOFF and JAMES CREEKMORE have been named principals at the law firm Woods, Rogers and Hazlegrove P.L.C. Having joined the firm in 1987, Birkhoff is chair of the firm's tax and estate planning group,...
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	Garrett Birkhoff Summary and Analysis Summary
		The son of the mathematician George David Birkhoff, Garrett began the Harvard University BA course in 1928...
		Birkhoff was the son of the late George D. Birkhoff,...
		Ruth (Collins) Birkhoff, a former member of the Cambridge Conservation Commission, died Nov. 3 in her home in Water Mill, N.Y. She was 83.
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		GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF A major influence on mathematics at Harvard from 1912 until his death was my father, George David Birkhoff (1884-1944).
		Birkhoffs idea of allowing high-school students to assume that real numbers express measurements of distance and angles was developed by E.
		David Widder and I were put in charge of the Harvard Colloquium in the years 1936-40.
	www.math.harvard.edu /history/birkhoffbook/birkhoff.txt (20981 words)

	AMS Presidents: A Timeline
		Through his trips to Europe and around the globe, Birkhoff made contacts with many scholars, and was in demand as a writer and speaker.
		Birkhoff was awarded the first AMS Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1923 for his paper, "Dynamical systems with two degrees of freedom," Transactions of the AMS (Vol.
		Birkhoff was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
	www.ams.org /ams/18-birkhoff.html (251 words)

	Birkhoff
		Birkhoff was one of the very best mathematicians on this side of the Atlantic.
		He published and lectured in many fields but his greatest contributions were probably in research into dynamical systems.
		in Cambridge, MA Unlike many of his contemporaries in math and science, Birkhoff did not travel to Europe until 1926, or 13 years after he had achieved renown with his proof of Poincaré's last geometric theorem.
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	Birkhoff, George David biography - S9.com
		Birkhoff's proof was a striking achievement and one that brought him immediate worldwide acclaim.
		1944 - George David Birkhoff died on 12th of November in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		This digital document, covering the life and work of George David Birkhoff, is an entry fromContemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale.
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	George David Birkhoff Biography Summary
		George David Birkhoff's contributions as a theoretical mathematician, a teacher, and a member of the international scientific community rank him as one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century.
		1884-1944 American Mathematician Founder of the modern theory of dynamical systems, which investigates the interrelation of separate motions in individual bodies and their impact on one another, George David Birkhoff is considered one of the most...
		Birkhoff was one of the most important leaders in American...
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	Birkhoff, George David \| Definition of Birkhoff, George David \| HighBeam.com: Online Dictionary
		Birkhoff, George David (1884–1944) American mathematician Birkhoff, who was born in Overisel, Michigan, studied at the Lewis Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) from 1896 to 1902, and subsequently at the University of Chicago and at Harvard.
		In 1912 he became assistant professor at Harvard and, in 1919, professor there, a post he held until 1939.
		Birkhoff's mathematical interests were wide, and among the many areas to which he made notable contributions were differential equations,...
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	LiveScience.com - Symmetry in Nature: Fundamental Fact or Human Bias?
		Birkhoff claimed there was a way to do this, but his methods were too subjective for most people's tastes and his formula was soon forgotten.
		Despite his failed effort, Birkhoff's idea that symmetry is a crucial determining factor for an object's aesthetic appeal is once again gaining credence in science, but in a slightly different form.
		In biology, recent studies have found that humans and other animals are highly attuned to symmetry in each other and often use it to gauge beauty and health during mate selection.
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	Amazon.com: "George David Birkhoff": Key Phrase page
		CHAPTER 68 GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF, DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (1927) David Aubin The first book to expound the qualitative theory of systems defined by differential equations,...
		Finally, in 1932, George David Birkhoff-see section 2.8-formulated an axiomatic model of geometry, similar to those of Euclid and Hilbert, that avoids this obstacle without loss...
		George David Birkhoff was twenty-seven years old when he received that letter in Princeton.
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	The George David Birkhoff Prize
		The George David Birkhoff Prize, established in 1967, is awarded jointly by SIAM and AMS.
		The prize is awarded for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.
		The recipients are Ivo Babuska, University of Maryland, College Park, and Srinivasa R. Varadhan, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
	www.siam.org /meetings/archives/an94/birkhoff.htm (54 words)

	George David Birkhoff — Infoplease.com
		In addition he wrote on the foundations of relativity and quantum mechanics and on art and music, e.g.,
		Garrett Birkhoff - Birkhoff, Garrett Birkhoff, Garrett, 1911–, American mathematician, b.
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	SIAM: George David Birkhoff Prize
		The original funds for the Birkhoff prize were donated by the Birkhoff family.
		Announcement of the award will be in SIAM News and in other similar scientific and general periodicals.
		The next award of the Birkhoff Prize will be made at the 2009 AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting.
	www.siam.org /prizes/sponsored/birkhoff.php (574 words)

	Clifford Truesdell - Birkhoff Prize (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This prize was established in 1967 in honor of Professor
		The initial endowment of $2,066 was contributed by the Birkhoff family and there have been subsequent additions by others.
		It is normally awarded every five years, beginning in 1968, for an outstanding contribution to ``applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.'' The award is made jointly by the
	groups.csail.mit.edu /medg/people/doyle/gallery/truesdell/birkhoff.html (173 words)

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	George David Birkhoff
		The first dynamicist in the New World, Birkhoff picked up where Poincare left off.
		Although a geometer at heart, he discovered new symbolic methods.
		He saw beyond the theory of oscillations, created a rigorous theory of ergodic behavior, and foresaw dynamical models for chaos.
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	Media Art Net \| Birkhoff, George David: Biography
		The American mathematician was a professor at Harvard University in Boston (USA) and worked in different mathematical areas – from dynamic systems (formulating here his important «Ergodic Theorem»;) to gravitation (developing a mathematical gravitation model) to art and rational aesthetics.
		Following a yearlong trip around the world devoted to studying art, music and poetry, Birkhoff published in 1932 the article «A Mathematical Theory of Aesthetics» («The Rice Institute Pamphlet») and the book «Aesthetic Measure» (1933).
		Both works deal with the mathematical theory of aesthetics.
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