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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