Gian-Carlo Rota | |
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Born | Vigevano, Italy | April 27, 1932
Died | April 18, 1999 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 66)
Alma mater | Princeton University (AB) Yale University (PhD) |
Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (1988) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Los Alamos National Laboratory The Rockefeller University |
Doctoral advisor | Jacob T. Schwartz |
Notable students |
Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 – 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.