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Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics Emeritus Garett Birkhoff '32, an expert on algebra and fluid mechanics, died at his home in Water Mill...
...late George D. Birkhoff, who was also a mathematician and Harvard faculty member, Birkhoff taught at Harvard from 1933 until his retirement...
...Birkhoff studied lattice theory, a highly abstract theory of structure and relative magnitude that was in its infancy when he began his studies...
During World War II, Birkhoff studied the explosion of bazooka charges and plotted phenomena associated with the entry into water of air-launched missiles. This led him to study fluid dynamics, his primary field after...
...Birkhoff wrote several books, including Survey of Modern Algebra, Jets, Wakes and Cavities and Ordinary Differential Equations...