Rota, Gian-Carlo

Rota, Gian-Carlo
▪ 2000

      Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in combinatorics; author of nearly 200 mathematical papers, he brought the once obscure field of combinatorics into prominence as an important area of study; he also wrote or co-wrote popular books of essays, including Discrete Thoughts (1986) and Indiscrete Thoughts (1997); on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1959 until his death, he became MIT's first professor of applied mathematics and philosophy in 1972 (b. April 27, 1932, Vigevano, Italy—d. April 19, 1999, Cambridge, Mass.).

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