MATHEMATICIAN

George David Birkhoff

1884 - 1944

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George David Birkhoff (March 21, 1884 – November 12, 1944) was one of the top American mathematicians of his generation. He made valuable contributions to the theory of differential equations, dynamical systems, the four-color problem, the three-body problem, and general relativity. Today, Birkhoff is best remembered for the ergodic theorem. The George D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George David Birkhoff has received more than 207,943 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. George David Birkhoff is the 480th most popular mathematician (down from 471st in 2019), the 3,822nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,995th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, George David Birkhoff ranks 480 out of 1,004. Before him are Dennis Sullivan, Al-Mahani, Federico Commandino, Adam Ries, Johann Samuel König, and Lazarus Fuchs. After him are Karl Mollweide, Ion Ghica, W. V. D. Hodge, Samuel Eilenberg, David Mumford, and Moritz Pasch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, George David Birkhoff ranks 100. Before him are Enrico Dante, Boris Asafyev, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Daniel Varoujan, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Félix Éboué, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Henri Queuille, Sekula Drljević, Bernhard Goetzke, and Maxwell Perkins. Among people deceased in 1944, George David Birkhoff ranks 177. Before him are Orde Wingate, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Miklós Radnóti, Adolf Diekmann, and Hans Graf von Sponeck. After him are Félix Fénéon, Liviu Rebreanu, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Félix Éboué, and Lepke Buchalter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George David Birkhoff ranks 3,822 out of 20,380. Before him are Christopher Cross (1951), Stephen Krashen (1941), Jerome Robbins (1918), June Allyson (1917), Dennis Haysbert (1954), and Joe Morton (1947). After him are David Janssen (1931), Donna Tartt (1963), Seth Carlo Chandler (1846), Michael Berryman (1948), Geraldine Farrar (1882), and Gilbert Stuart (1755).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, George David Birkhoff ranks 29. Before him are Jim Simons (1938), Whitfield Diffie (1944), William Thurston (1946), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Isadore Singer (1924), and Dennis Sullivan (1941). After him are Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), Julia Robinson (1919), John Tate (1925), Ronald Graham (1935), Haskell Curry (1900), and Louis J. Mordell (1888).

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