George David Birkhoff
1884 - 1944
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George Birkhoff was an American mathematician who was educated at Chicago and Harvard. He became a Professor at Harvard. His most important work was the Ergodic Theorem he discovered in 1931. He spoke at the EMS Colloquium in St Andrews in 1926 and was elected an honorary member of the society.
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| Honours awarded to George Birkhoff (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| AMS Colloquium Lecturer | 1920 |
| AMS Bôcher Prize | 1923 |
| Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh Maths Society | 1926 |
| American Maths Society President | 1925 - 1926 |
| Speaker at International Congress | 1928 |
| Speaker at International Congress | 1936 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1943 |
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