EntityQ538846· pop 23· linked from 243 articlesGarrett BirkhoffSign in to saveAmerican mathematician (1911–1996)ConnectionsmathematicsEntityWorld War IIConceptNew YorkEntityNew JerseyEntityalgebraEntityInternational Standard Book NumberEntityHarvard UniversityEntityUniversity of CambridgeEntitymathematicianEntityJohn von NeumannEntityWayback MachineEntitydigital object identifierEntityInternational Standard Serial NumberEntityAlfred North WhiteheadEntityEugene WignerEntityPaul SamuelsonEntityDonald KnuthEntityGeneral MotorsEntityabstract algebraEntityPrincetonEntityCategories1911 births1996 deaths20th-century American mathematiciansAmerican algebraistsAmerican expatriates in EnglandAmerican fluid dynamicistsHarvard University alumniHarvard University Department of Mathematics facultyInstitute for Advanced Study visiting scholarsLattice theoristsMathematicians from New JerseyMembers of the American Philosophical Society