Gian-Carlo Rota

Gian-Carlo Rota
Gian-Carlo Rota
	Rota in 1970
Born	April 27, 1932; Vigevano, Italy
Died	April 18, 1999 (aged 66); Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University (AB); Yale University (PhD)
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1988)
	Scientific career
Fields	Combinatorics; Functional analysis; Probability theory; Phenomenology;
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Los Alamos National Laboratory; The Rockefeller University
Doctoral advisor	Jacob T. Schwartz
Notable students	Thomas H. Brylawski; William Y.C. Chen; Daniel I. A. Cohen; Henry Crapo; Peter Duren; Richard Ehrenborg; Stephen Grossberg; Mark Haiman; Patrick O'Neil; Richard P. Stanley; Walter Whiteley; Catherine Yan;

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.

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