George David Birkhoff Quotes

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Algebra tends to the study of the explicit structure of postulationally defined systems closed with respect to one or more rational operations.

George David Birkhoff

It is to be hoped that in the future more and more theoretical physicists will command a deep knowledge of mathematical principles; and also that mathematicians will no longer limit themselves so exclusively to the aesthetic development of mathematical abstractions.

George David Birkhoff

It will probably be the new mathematical discoveries which are suggested through physics that will always be most important, for, from the beginning, Nature has led the way and established the pattern which mathematics, the language of Nature, must follow.

George David Birkhoff

The primary service of modern mathematics is that it alone enables us to understand the vast abstract permanences which underlie the flux of things, without requiring us to regard its self-consistent abstractions as more than specific limited instruments of thought.

George David Birkhoff

Mathematics is the codified body of all logical thought.

George David Birkhoff

George David Birkhoff

George David Birkhoff

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Born: March 21, 1884

Died: November 12, 1944 (aged 60)

Bio: George David Birkhoff was an American mathematician best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem.

Known for:

Relativity and modern physics (1923)
Basic Geometry: Answer Book
Dynamical Systems (1927)
Basic Geometry: Manual for Teachers (1943)

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