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 Robert R. Kallman)
• Rota's Conjecture
• Rota's Basis Conjecture
• Rota-Baxter Algebra (with Glen Earl Baxter)

Results named for Gian-Carlo Rota can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Gian-Carlo Rota can be found here.

Publications

• 1956: Extension Theory Of Ordinary Linear Differential Operators
• 1961: Founded the journal Advances in Mathematics
• 1962: Ordinary Differential Equations (with Garrett Birkhoff)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Gian-Carlo Rota": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive