Birkhoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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George David Birkhoff
George David Birkhoff (March 21, 1884 – November 12, 1944) was an American mathematician best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem. Birkhoff was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation, and durin ...
(1884–1944), American mathematician
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Garrett Birkhoff
Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory.
The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father.
Life
The son of the mathematician Geo ...
(1911–1996), American mathematician, son of George D.
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Birkhoff (crater)
Birkhoff is a giant lunar walled plain that is located on the far side of the Moon, in the northern hemisphere
Hemisphere refers to:
* A half of a sphere
As half of the Earth
* A hemisphere of Earth
** Northern Hemisphere
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Birkhoff interpolation
In mathematics, Birkhoff interpolation is an extension of polynomial interpolation. It refers to the problem of finding a polynomial ''p'' of degree ''d'' such that certain derivatives have specified values at specified points:
: p^(x_i) = y_i \qq ...
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Birkhoff's axioms In 1932, G. D. Birkhoff created a set of four postulates of Euclidean geometry in the plane, sometimes referred to as Birkhoff's axioms. These postulates are all based on basic geometry that can be confirmed experimentally with a scale and protrac ...
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Birkhoff's theorem (disambiguation) Birkhoff's theorem may refer to several theorems named for the American mathematician George David Birkhoff:
* Birkhoff's theorem (relativity)
* Birkhoff's theorem (electromagnetism)
* Birkhoff's ergodic theorem
It may also refer to theorems nam ...
, multiple theorems
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Birkhoff decomposition, two different decompositions
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Birkhoff algorithm Birkhoff's algorithm (also called Birkhoff-von-Neumann algorithm) is an algorithm for decomposing a bistochastic matrix into a convex combination of permutation matrices. It was published by Garrett Birkhoff in 1946. It has many applications. One su ...
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Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem
In mathematics, more specifically in the theory of Lie algebras, the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem (or PBW theorem) is a result giving an explicit description of the universal enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra. It is named after Henri Poi ...
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