Geek Fact for March 21st

By Judy Novotny / 03/21/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1884, US mathematician George D. Birkhoff was born.

In 1931, Birkhoff’s discovered what is now called the ergodic theorem. Ergodic theory is a branch of mathematics that studies dynamical systems with an invariant measure and related problems.

Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_theory

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