Gian-Carlo Rota
Italian-American mathematician and philosopher
Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology. Wikipedia
Born: April 27, 1932, Vigevano, Italy
Died: April 18, 1999 (age 66 years), Cambridge, MA
Notable students: Richard P. Stanley, Henry Crapo, Mark Haiman, and more
Academic advisor: Jacob T. Schwartz
Award: Leroy P. Steele Prize (1988)
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