Garrett Birkhoff

16.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Garrett Birkhoff is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computational Mechanics and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Garrett Birkhoff has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 21 papers in Computational Mechanics and 12 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in Garrett Birkhoff's work include History and Theory of Mathematics (10 papers), Advanced Algebra and Logic (9 papers) and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (9 papers). Garrett Birkhoff is often cited by papers focused on History and Theory of Mathematics (10 papers), Advanced Algebra and Logic (9 papers) and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics (9 papers). Garrett Birkhoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Sudan and Canada. Garrett Birkhoff's co-authors include Kenneth O. May, Saunders MacLane, Kevin Eggan, Dieter Egli, Richard S. Varga, Rudolph E. Langer, Robert E. Lynch, G. M. Clemence, Arthur G. Hansen and John D. Lipson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Garrett Birkhoff

113 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

A Survey of Modern Algebra 1954 2026 1978 2002 1954 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Garrett Birkhoff United States 32 868 858 421 406 387 119 3.7k
Erwin Kreyszig United States 19 520 0.6× 498 0.6× 148 0.4× 386 1.0× 514 1.3× 84 4.8k
Carl-Erik Fröberg Sweden 8 784 0.9× 903 1.1× 128 0.3× 257 0.6× 1.0k 2.6× 27 4.8k
George E. Forsythe United States 27 1.1k 1.2× 1.4k 1.6× 182 0.4× 397 1.0× 1.1k 2.8× 74 6.2k
R. W. Hamming United States 21 617 0.7× 766 0.9× 255 0.6× 720 1.8× 397 1.0× 53 5.8k
L. A. Shepp United States 45 699 0.8× 407 0.5× 291 0.7× 774 1.9× 197 0.5× 168 10.6k
Robert J. Plemmons United States 36 1.0k 1.2× 1.8k 2.1× 253 0.6× 750 1.8× 847 2.2× 175 6.0k
Roland Bulirsch Germany 24 1.4k 1.6× 1.5k 1.7× 237 0.6× 394 1.0× 1.8k 4.7× 48 8.6k
Herbert S. Wilf United States 35 281 0.3× 1.8k 2.1× 338 0.8× 899 2.2× 340 0.9× 201 5.9k
Richard P. Brent Australia 32 624 0.7× 2.5k 2.9× 269 0.6× 1.7k 4.1× 644 1.7× 193 7.3k
Ronald F. Boisvert United States 24 528 0.6× 392 0.5× 138 0.3× 337 0.8× 341 0.9× 68 4.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Birkhoff, Garrett, et al.. (1995). Lattice theory and its applications : in celebration of Garrett Birkhoff's 80th birthday. 2 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1975). Mathematics and Computer Science. American Scientist. 63(1). 83–91. 58 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1974). Origins of modern algebra. Historia Mathematica. 1(3). 333–337. 23 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1973). Interpolation to boundary data in triangles. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 42(2). 474–484. 14 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett & John D. Lipson. (1970). Heterogeneous algebras. Journal of Combinatorial Theory. 8(1). 115–133. 130 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett, et al.. (1969). Third order positive cyclic systems of linear differential equations. Journal of Differential Equations. 5(1). 182–196. 6 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett & Thomas C. Bartee. (1967). Preliminary edition of modern applied algebra. McGraw-Hill eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1965). Note on positive linear operators. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 16(1). 14–16. 1 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1964). Well-set Cauchy problems and C0-semigroups. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 8(2). 303–324. 3 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett, Richard Bellman, & Chia‐Chang Lin. (1962). Hydrodynamic Instability. 27 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1962). Uniformly Semi-Primitive Multiplicative Processes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 104(1). 37–37. 4 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1962). Uniformly semi-primitive multiplicative processes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 104(1). 37–51. 33 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1961). Hydrodynamics. Princeton University Press eBooks. 29 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett. (1961). Lattice-ordered demigroups. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 14(2). 1–26. 1 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett & E. P. Wigner. (1961). Nuclear Reactor Theory. 24 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett & Rudolph E. Langer. (1959). Orbit Theory. 2 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett & Richard S. Varga. (1959). Implicit Alternating Direction Methods. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 92(1). 13–13. 13 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett & Rudolph E. Langer. (1959). Orbit theory : [proceedings of the Ninth Symposium in Applied Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society, held at New York University, April 4-6, 1957. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett, et al.. (1954). Note on the Heat Equation. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 5(1). 162–162. 1 indexed citations
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Birkhoff, Garrett & Saunders Mac Lane. (1953). A brief survey of modern algebra. Macmillan eBooks. 23 indexed citations

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