GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF was born at Overisel, Michigan, on the twenty-first of March, 1884. His ancestry was Dutch on both sides. His father, David Birkhoff, came from
Holland in 1870, and during George David’s growing years was a physician in Chicago. Birkhoff studied at the Lewis Institute, Chicago, from 1896 to 1902, and at the University
of Chicago for a year. After this he went to Harvard, where he received the Bachelor’s degree in 1905.
Es una realidad cada vez más tajante que en el actual mundo de cambio en que vivimos, difícilmente podrá un país encarar el futuro si no cuenta con una investigación científica muy sólida. Esta
...Por Juan Manuel Lozano (1929-2007)
Director de la Facultad de Ciencias, 1969-1973
Profesor Distinguido, 2005
Investigador del Instituto de Física, 1953-2007
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(Del Boletín del Departamento de Matemáticas de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM. #237, Marzo 2008)
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Por Ángela Acevedo
El Departamento de