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Garrett Birkhoff

1911 - 1996

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Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garrett Birkhoff has received more than 140,657 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Garrett Birkhoff is the 830th most popular mathematician (down from 798th in 2019), the 8,217th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,893rd in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Mathematician.

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  • 45.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Garrett Birkhoff ranks 830 out of 1,004. Before him are Ivan Petrovsky, Heinz Prüfer, Stanislav Smirnov, Peter Tait, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, and Paul Montel. After him are Annie S. D. Maunder, Gregory Chaitin, Curtis T. McMullen, Nathan Jacobson, Friedrich Engel, and Sergey Nikolsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Garrett Birkhoff ranks 307. Before him are Adam Kozłowiecki, Jeanette Nolan, Georg Dascher, Bruno Venturini, Wilhelm Leichum, and Gilles Grangier. After him are Paul Zielinski, Arvid Thörn, Bruno Ahlberg, Paul Grégoire, Philibert Smellinckx, and Rıfat Ilgaz. Among people deceased in 1996, Garrett Birkhoff ranks 277. Before him are Gizella Farkas, Emilio Zapico, Anton Moravčík, Birgit Brüel, Gilles Grangier, and Christine Pascal. After him are Alberto Pellegrino, Károly Kárpáti, Léon-Étienne Duval, Fulvio Nesti, Øivind Holmsen, and Kazadi Mwamba.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Garrett Birkhoff ranks 8,217 out of 20,380. Before him are C. Thomas Howell (1966), Ted Chiang (1967), Harry DeBaecke (1879), Carl Johnson (1898), Gene Anthony Ray (1962), and Frank Whaley (1963). After him are Paul Fix (1901), Reta Shaw (1912), Matthew Henson (1866), James Stafford (1932), Zachary Levi (1980), and Lynn Bari (1913).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Garrett Birkhoff ranks 60. Before him are Edward O. Thorp (1932), Joseph Keller (1923), Christine Darden (1942), Morris Kline (1908), Douglas McIlroy (1932), and James Waddell Alexander II (1888). After him are Gregory Chaitin (1947), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Tom M. Apostol (1923), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Marston Morse (1892), and Richard Garfield (1963).

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