Mathematician:Gian-Carlo Rota

Mathematician
Italian-American mathematician and philosopher who worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.

Nationality
Italian-American

History

 * Born: April 27, 1932 in Vigevano, Italy
 * Died: April 18, 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kallman-Rota Inequality (with )
 * Rota's Conjecture
 * Rota's Basis Conjecture
 * Rota-Baxter Algebra (with )

Publications

 * 1956: Extension Theory Of Ordinary Linear Differential Operators


 * 1959: (with )
 * 1962: (with )
 * 1978: (with )


 * 1961: Founded the journal


 * 1992: Discrete Thoughts (with and )

Notable Quotes

 * In mathematics, as anywhere today, it is becoming more difficult to tell the truth. To be sure, our store of accurate facts is more plentiful now than it has ever been ... Unfortunately, telling the truth is not quite the same as reciting a rosary of facts.
 * -- Introduction to Discrete Thoughts, by, and  ($1985$)