BIRKHOFF AWARDED PRIZE BY POPE PIUS FOR MEMOIR

Word has been received from the Vatican City that George D. Birkhoff, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded the biennial prize of 10,000 lira by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for his memoir on the systems of differential equations. The prize award was conferred by Pope Plus XI, and in Professor Birkhoff's absence it was accepted for him by Professor Tallio Levi-Civita, member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.