# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gian-carlo-rota
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:13:52.576Z

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name: "Gian-Carlo Rota"
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description: "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."
tagline: "American mathematician and philosopher (1932-1999)"
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birthDate: "1932-04-27"
deathDate: "1999-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump