Adriano Garsia

Adriano Garsia
Born(1928-08-20)20 August 1928
Tunis, French Tunisia
DiedOctober 6, 2024(2024-10-06) (aged 96)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisorCharles Loewner
Doctoral students

Adriano Mario Garsia (20 August, 1928 – 6 October, 2024[1]) was a Tunisian-born Italian American mathematician who worked in analysis, combinatorics, representation theory, and algebraic geometry. He was a student of Charles Loewner and published work on representation theory, symmetric functions, and algebraic combinatorics. He and Mark Haiman made the n! conjecture. He is also the namesake of the Garsia–Wachs algorithm for optimal binary search trees, which he published with his student Michelle L. Wachs in 1977.[2]

  1. ^ "Death of Adriano Garsia". Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  2. ^ Knuth, Donald E. (1998), "Algorithm G (Garsia–Wachs algorithm for optimum binary trees)", The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd ed.), Addison–Wesley, pp. 451–453. See also History and bibliography, pp. 453–454.