Gian-Carlo Rota

GPTKB entity

Statements (56)
Predicate Object
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gptkb:Yale_University
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gptkb:Lester_R._Ford_Award
gptkb:Eliot_Norton_Lectureship
gptkbp:birthDate 1932-04-27
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Vigevano,_Italy
gptkbp:deathDate 1999-04-18
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Cambridge,_Massachusetts,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Jacob_T._Schwartz
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Advances_in_Mathematics
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gptkbp:field gptkb:mathematics
gptkb:philosophy
gptkb:probability_theory
functional analysis
phenomenology
combinatorics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gian-Carlo Rota
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gptkb:Emil_Artin
gptkb:Martin_Heidegger
gptkb:Solomon_Lefschetz
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Rota's_basis_conjecture
gptkb:Rota's_conjecture
gptkb:Rota–Baxter_algebra
incidence algebras
modern combinatorics
umbral calculus
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gptkb:Italian
gptkb:Spanish
English
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gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Foundations_of_Combinatorics
gptkb:Rota's_basis_conjecture
gptkb:Rota's_conjecture
Theory of Möbius functions
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