Some of my recollections of George David Birkhoff
โ Scribed by H.S Vandiver
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1963
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 836 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-247X
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from 1952-1954 . I had known him before that time, however, and, of course, after I left Lawrence in the Spring of 1954. When we could not meet, we corresponded. For some time now I have been reading as much as possible of that correspondence lasting for almost 35 years trying to recover a sense of
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