Category:Garrett Birkhoff

**Garrett Birkhoff**
	American mathematician
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Name in native language	Garrett Birkhoff;
Date of birth	19 January 1911; Princeton
Date of death	22 November 1996; Water Mill (Suffolk County, New York)
Place of burial	Water Mill Cemetery (40°54′35.645″N 72°21′8.206″W);
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Educated at	Harvard University (1928–1932); Buckingham Browne & Nichols School (1923–1927); University of Cambridge (1932–1933);
Doctoral advisor	Philip Hall;
Doctoral student	Frank Moore Stewart; George Mostow; R. Tyrrell Rockafellar; Richard Friederich Arens; Martin Harvey Schultz; Donald James Rose; Chandler Davis; Henry C. Wente; Lawrence Markus; Robert E. Lynch; George Markowsky; Thomas Wilson Mullikin; Thomas Caywood; Emmett Keeler; Uta Caecilia Merzbach; Pesi Rustom Masani; Calvin Hayden Wilcox; Gerald Arthur Edgar; Walter Fuller Taylor; Choy-Tak Taam; …;
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	Harvard University (1934–1981);
Member of	National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society;
Position held	chairperson (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1966–1968);
Field of work	algebra; lattice; mathematics; abstract algebra; universal algebra; applied mathematics; ballistics; hydrodynamics;
Native language	English;
Father	George David Birkhoff;
Sibling	Barbara Birkhoff;
Notable work	A Survey of Modern Algebra; Birkhoff algorithm; Birkhoff polytope; Birkhoff's representation theorem; Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem; Pierce–Birkhoff conjecture;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1947); George David Birkhoff Prize (1978); Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1951); Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1974);
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English: Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) is best known for his work in lattice theory.