Gian-Carlo Rota

Gian-Carlo Rota
Rota in 1970
Born	(1932-04-27)April 27, 1932 Vigevano, Italy
Died	April 18, 1999(1999-04-18) (aged 66) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Princeton University (AB) Yale University (PhD)
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1988)
Scientific career
Fields	Combinatorics Functional analysis Probability theory Phenomenology
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Los Alamos National Laboratory The Rockefeller University
Doctoral advisor	Jacob T. Schwartz
Notable students	Thomas H. Brylawski William Y.C. Chen Daniel I. A. Cohen Henry Crapo Peter Duren Richard Ehrenborg Stephen Grossberg Mark Haiman Patrick O'Neil Richard P. Stanley Walter Whiteley Catherine Yan

Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 – April 18, 1999) 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.