Gian-Carlo Rota
American mathematician and philosopher (1932-1999) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 66
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.
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1999Died18 April 1999Honorary Doctor of the Nankai UniversityAward1988Leroy P. Steele PrizeAward1984Honorary Doctor of Louis Pasteur UniversityAward1970Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1932Born27 April 1932
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Lived 1932 to 1999 · aged 66
