Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999)

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  1. 3. University where Rota received a masters’ degree in 1954 and a Ph.D. in 1956, both in Mathematics
  2. 6. An award Rota won in 1996 that honored his work as an innovator and theorist responsible for popularizing the field of combinatorics
  3. 8. A paper Rota wrote that was pivotal in making combinatorics become a respected field and incorporating it into mainstream mathematics
  4. 10. Rota helped discover the modern theory of this field of Mathematics that uses polynomials to count combinatorial objects
  5. 11. Rota is said to have turned this field of mathematics into a mainstream and popular field today, and it is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting and certain properties of finite structures
  6. 12. Rota’s family had to flee to this country in 1946 to escape Mussolini’s fascist regime and death squads, which allowed him to continue his studies and become fluent in several languages
  7. 14. A field of mathematics that Rota researched that is concerned with properties of mathematical objects, especially polynomials, that are preserved by certain transformations.
  8. 16. Rota was passionate about and taught this field of philosophy, which studies the structures of experience and consciousness.
  9. 17. The last book Rota published before his death that discusses topics ranging from mathematics and philosophy to personal stories centering on the lives of mathematicians he had known.
  10. 18. Honors Rota held that were given to him by four universities: University of Strasbourg, University L’Aquila, University of Bologna, and Brooklyn Polytechnical University
  11. 19. An award Rota won in 1988 from the American Mathematical Society that praised his contribution to the field of combinatorics
  12. 20. An award Rota won from the National Security Agency in 1992 to recognize his accomplishments as an educator
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  1. 1. Viewed as his greatest editorial achievement, Rota became editor of this mathematical journal in 1961, and it was lauded as one of the most interesting and prestigious math journals ever
  2. 2. A type of associative algebra and one of his earliest discoveries; Rota built off of the work of Glen E. Baxter and found that one can prove identities in probability, q-series, and other areas by proving one overarching identity involving symmetric functions
  3. 4. City in Italy where Rota was born in 1932
  4. 5. In 1998, Rota was invited to present here by the American Mathematical Society, at a series of three lectures of increasing complexity presented each year by one of the world's most popular mathematicians
  5. 7. Spent most of his career working at this school (its abbreviation), where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology
  6. 9. City in Massachusetts where Rota died in 1999
  7. 13. Father of Rota who was a civil engineer, architect, and prominent anti-facist
  8. 15. A field of mathematics that Rota researched during his masters and doctoral studies that focused on the study of vector spaces and linear functions defined on these spaces
  9. 16. Primary career Rota had throughout his life