biography
pronunciation:
[berkof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911– )
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He taught at Harvard (1936–81), and was a National Academy of Sciences member and consultant to General Motors, the Rand Corp, and Los Alamos Science Laboratory. His specialties included modern algebra, fluid mechanics, numerical methods, reactor theory, differential equations, and history of mathematics. |
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