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	Rota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gian-Carlo Rota was a 20th-century Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.
		Rota is the southernmost of the Northern Mariana Islands.
		The rota was a cylinder, open on one side, that was built inside a wall of a monastery; it was used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy, being their only communication with the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rota (313 words)

	Rota
		Rota died in his sleep and was found in bed on the afternoon of 19 April 1999.
		Rota was also a consultant with the Rand Corporation from 1966 to 1971 and with the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1969 to 1973.
		Rota was given the title Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT but in 1972 his title was changed to Professor of Applied Mathematics and Philosophy.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Rota.html (1188 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 – April 18, 1999, known as Juan Carlos Rota to Spanish speakers) was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.
		The Forbidden City of Gian-Carlo Rota (a memorial site) This page at www.rota.org was not originally intended to be a memorial web site, but was created by Rota himself with the assistance of his friend Bill Chen in January 1999 while Rota was visiting Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		At that time his family fled Italy because his father, Giovanni Rota, was likely to be an object of fascist persecution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gian-Carlo_Rota (364 words)

	Review of Gian-Carlo Rota's book, Indiscrete Thoughts
		Rota's history fits the proverb "Faithful are the wounds of a friend." Eulogizing Ulam, for example, Rota cites his broad mathematical contributions, ranging from logic to physics, but he earns the wrath of Ulam's wife by pointing out Ulam's personal foibles.
		Rota's advice follows from his philosophy of phenomenology, which in turn determines the mathematicians he praises, namely, those who were more than mere technicians.
		According to Rota, middle-European Victorian culture confused meaning with precision and as a result promoted an embarrassing idea of progress, no less in mathematics than in the culture at large.
	webstu.messiah.edu /~chase/articles/ROTA.htm (641 words)

	Read This: Indiscrete Thoughts
		Rota's portrayals of Ulam's relationship with John von Neumann (first as von Neumann's assistant at the Institute for Advanced Studies and then as his assistant in the Manhattan Project) and his competition with Edward Teller to design the hydrogren bomb (Ulam won) are particularly revealing.
		Rota's collection of essays covers many distinct topics, but perhaps there is one important overall lesson that we can learn from his book: As mathematicians we must begin to understand more deeply what we do and learn to communicate that understanding to the world at large.
		It is 260 pages of Rota calling it like he sees it, sandwiched in between two forwards, an introduction by the author himself, and an epilogue by the editor.
	www.maa.org /reviews/indiscthots.html (1622 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		Rota was born on April 27, 1932 to a prominent family in Vigevano, Italy.
		Rota was educated in Italy until 1945, when his family was forced to leave Vigevano to escape the fascist regime under Mussolini.
		Rota was also the invited presenter at the 1998 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Colloquium Lectures, a series of three lectures of increasing complexity presented each year by one of the world's most eminent mathematicians.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N21/21rota.21n.html (1173 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		Immensely knowledgeable in several fields of pure and applied mathematics and an expert in phenomenology and existential philosophy, Gian-Carlo Rota was best known for his fundamental contributions to combinatorics, invariant theory and probability.
		In addition to his technical contributions, Gian-Carlo Rota was a prolific essayist on the cultural aspects of mathematics---historical, biographical, anecdotal, etc.---and the author of numerous book reviews.
		Rota was a man of high standard and strong opinions, which occasionally led him to peaks of devastating abrasiveness, as exemplified for instance in some of his aphorisms and book reviews.
	www.csc.fi /math_topics/Mail/NANET99-2/msg00043.html (510 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		Rota followed up the "Foundations I" paper with over 80 further papers in combinatorics (to say nothing of papers, essays, and reviews in many other areas of mathematics and in philosophy) that established him as the founding father and leading guru of the new subject of algebraic combinatorics.
		Rota developed Advances in Mathematics virtually single-handedly into one of the leading journals of research mathematics, and he was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Mathematics, a book series that contains definitive expositions of a wide range of mathematical topics.
		Rota was born in Vigevano, Italy, on April 27, 1932.
	www.siam.org /siamnews/06-99/rota.htm (921 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		Lecture delivered by Gian-Carlo Rota at MIT on April 20, 1996, on occasion of the Rotafest.
		Obituary of Gian-Carlo Rota that appeared in the SIAM Newsletter on Discrete Mathematics.
		Limerick written for Gian-Carlo Rota on occasion of the Rotafest.
	www-math.mit.edu /~rstan/rota.html (88 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Indiscrete Thoughts
		Rota believes the mythification of science and scientists is responsible for many of the flaws in education and science in general.
		A number of the protagonists in the book are the famous math professors Rota encountered when he was an undergraduate in Princeton in the early fifties; that was also the period of another illustrious mathematician, John Nash [later to become a Nobel Laureate, and the subject of a bestseller, and a movie; `A Beautiful Mind'].
		Rota paints his subjects with a mix of colors: humor, respect, love, insight in the human soul, wisdom, and personal reflection.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0817638660?v=glance (1635 words)

	References for Rota
		C Bernardi, Gian-Carlo Rota: a mathematician reflecting on the activity of mathematics (Italian), Archimede 46 (4) (1994), 189-197.
		H H Crapo, Rota's "combinatorial theory", in Gian-Carlo Rota on combinatorics (Boston, MA, 1995) xix-xliii.
		W Y C Chen, Gian-Carlo Rota : philosopher, psychologist and mathematician, in Gian-Carlo Rota on combinatorics (Boston, MA, 1995) xiv-xv.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Printref/Rota.html (115 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		A curriculum vitae for Rota as of 1996
		Rota's memories of Fine Hall at Princeton in the 1950s.
		Ten lessons I wish I had been taught, from the lecture given by Rota at the Rotafest in 1996.
	faculty.uml.edu /dklain/rota.html (60 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999)
		One of Gian-Carlo Rota's virtues lay in the fact that he was welcoming not just to a few intimates, but to a large community of mathematicians.
		He was teaching and I was taking 18.315, officially titled ``Introduction to Combinatorial Theory.'' Rota was running this as what he called a ``Hollywood'' course, with pretty results and enough overlap between lectures to keep his audience from getting lost even if we hadn't carefully studied the previous lecture.
		It was Rota's attention to answering that ``Why?'' in as deep a way as possible that convinced me to be a combinatorialist.
	www.math.wayne.edu /~bdt/ROTA.html (647 words)

	Plinius Conference
		This conference will be devoted to the memory of Gian-Carlo Rota, untimely dead in April 1999.
		We are planning to collect a selection of scientific contributions that will be pubblished as a tribute to Gian-Carlo Rota.
		People who can work in more than one field, and who are able to see analogies between seemingly disparate concepts, will be the ones who set the pace for the future..." (Gian-Carlo Rota in Mathematics, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, <>, n.12 - 1985)
	www.unibas.it /utenti/senato/objectives.htm (249 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		I regret very much to write that Professor Gian-Carlo Rota of MIT passed away at his home at the age of 66 from heart failure.
	www.csc.fi /math_topics/Mail/NANET99-2/msg00042.html (82 words)

	Professor Gian-Carlo Rota, 1932-1999
		In recognition of Gian-Carlo Rota's long service and contributions to the M.I.T. department of mathematics, there will be a one day conference devoted to Rota's memory.
		An interview with Dr. Rota was published in MIT Tech Talk last October 28.
		This room would house a selection of the many books which Rota contributed to M.I.T. over the years as well as some of the other interesting and rare volumes in the M.I.T. archives.
	www-math.mit.edu /department/rota.html (164 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		Lecture delivered by Gian-Carlo Rota at MIT on April 20, 1996, on occasion of the Rotafest.
		Lecture delivered by Gian-Carlo Rota at the Alumni Association's Family Weekend in the fall of 1996.
		Papers by Gian-Carlo Rota A list of papers by Gian-Carlo Rota on MathSciNet.
	www.math.tamu.edu /~cyan/Rota.html (81 words)

	The Umbral Transfer-Matrix Method: I. Foundations
		Gian-Carlo ROTA was one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics, but some of his ideas will be even more seminal in the 21st-century.
		In Fond Mermory of Gian-Carlo ROTA (April 27, 1932- April 18, 1999)
		The present article, hopefully to be followed by four others, attempts to illustrate this statement.
	www.math.temple.edu /~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimhtml/umbI.html (121 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota and his students
		Gian-Carlo Rota's advisor was Jacob T. Schwartz (Yale MA 1955, PhD 1956).
		For instance, it would be be nice to know the order in which the students graduated.
	www.ms.uky.edu /~jrge/Rota/rota.html (71 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Gian-Carlo Rota on Analysis and Probability
		Gian-Carlo Rota was one of those rare mathematicians who made major contributions to several areas of mathematics.
		Reprints of Gian-Carlo Rota's papers in analysis, written at the beginning of his career.
		As is customary with Rota's writings, the papers included in the volume – some published here for the first time – contain many fresh and unexpected ideas for further research.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0817642757 (440 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota
		Authors: Daniel A. Klain, Gian-Carlo Rota, and Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo
		Authors: Gian-Carlo Rota, Richard P. Stanley, B. Bollobas, W. Fulton, A. Katok, F. Kirwan, P. Sarnak, and B. Simon
		Authors: Stanislaw M. Ulam, Mark C. Reynolds, and Gian-Carlo Rota
	www.veryhappening.com /things/gian-carlo_rota (80 words)

	gian carlo rota - ResearchIndex document query
		of GF (2)and GF (3)representable matroids, Gian-Carlo Rota conjectured that the matroids representable
		Domino tilings with barriers In memory of Gian-Carlo Rota James Propp 1 and Richard Stanley 2 1
		March 7, 2000 dedicated to the memory of gian-carlo rota We investigate several hyperplane
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Gian-Carlo+Rota (346 words)

	► » Fascinating Interview with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp
		A dialogue with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp
		Fascinating Interview with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp
		Subject: Re: Fascinating Interview with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp
	www.science-chat.org /Fascinating-Interview-with-Gian-Carlo-Rota-and-David-Sharp-6925417.html (109 words)

	In Memory of Gian-Carlo Rota
		I would add one tale from my time at MIT (took a PhD in analysis under Gian-Carlo's guidance, back in 1964.) One day there was a cola or some such soft drink on the teacher's desk when Rota came to class.
		Once I secretly made my assumption: Gian-Carlo loved Coke so much just because "Cola" well approximated "Carlo." The mathematical community loves to start from assumptions.
		I suppose he was trying to prove my hypothesis, since he was always fond of doing proof, as a mathematician for nearly four decades.
	www.math.umn.edu /~jhshen/memgc.html (1011 words)

	Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties, by GIAN-CARLO ROTA
		Gian-Carlo Rota was born in Italy, where he went to school through the ninth grade.
		Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties, by GIAN-CARLO ROTA
		Maybe one or two of you will go on to become mathematicians."
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmcxrota.htm (6082 words)

	Gian-Carlo Rota on the Teaching of Differential Equations
		Gian-Carlo Rota on the Teaching of Differential Equations
		––G. Gian-Carlo Rota: "Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before I Started Teaching Differential Equations"
	euler.slu.edu /Dept/Faculty/marks/Pedagogy/RotaOnTeachingODEs.html (32 words)

	Find in a Library: Mathematical essays in honor of Gian-Carlo Rota
		by Gian-Carlo Rota; Bruce Eli Sagan; Richard P Stanley
		Find in a Library: Mathematical essays in honor of Gian-Carlo Rota
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/aa520df715e5c42ca19afeb4da09e526.html (49 words)

	The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Gian-Carlo Rota
		According to our current on-line database, Gian-Carlo Rota has 46 students and 200 descendants.
		If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form.
		Click here to see the students listed in chronological order.
	genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu /html/id.phtml?id=7721 (99 words)

	Invariant Theory and Superalgebras:0821807196:Grosshans, Frank D.; Rota, Gian-Carlo; Stein, Joel A.:eCampus.com
		Author(s): Grosshans, Frank D. Rota, Gian-Carlo; Stein, Joel A. Format: Paperback
		Invariant Theory and Superalgebras:0821807196:Grosshans, Frank D.; Rota, Gian-Carlo; Stein, Joel A.:eCampus.com
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0821807196 (22 words)

	Errata for Memorial Article: Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999)
		Errata as of 1/2/00 for Memorial Article: Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999)
		The original article appears in the Notices of the AMS, February, 2000, volume 47, number 2, pages 203-216.
	www.math.wayne.edu /~bdt/Papers/mem-rota-errata.html (157 words)

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