Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Garrett Birkhoff
Born: January 19, 1911
Died: November 22, 1996 (aged 85)
Bio: Garrett Birkhoff was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory.
Known for:
- A survey of modern algebra (1941)
- Algebra (1967)
- A source book in classical analysis (1973)
- Lattice Theory (1940)
- Ordinary Differential Equations (1962)