Gian-Carlo Rota
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Not to be confused with Carlo Rota.
Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 ā April 18, 1999) 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.
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Born | (1932-04-27)April 27, 1932 Vigevano, Italy |
Died | April 18, 1999(1999-04-18) (aged 66) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Alma mater | Princeton University (AB) Yale University (PhD) |
Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (1988) |
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Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Los Alamos National Laboratory The Rockefeller University |
Doctoral advisor | Jacob T. Schwartz |
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