吉安-卡洛·羅塔

吉安-卡洛·羅塔（Gian-Carlo Rota，）是一位義裔美籍數學家及哲學家。

生平
羅塔生於義大利倫巴第大區帕維亞省的維傑瓦諾。十三歲時，全家遷離義大利，起初落腳於瑞士。

羅塔曾就讀厄瓜多的Colegio Americano de Quito。羅塔曾就讀普林斯頓大學與耶魯大學。羅塔的職業生涯大半都在麻省理工學院度過。他是麻省理工學院至今唯一同時擔任數學教席與哲學教席的人。羅塔亦是應用數學的諾伯特·維納講座教授。

羅塔曾開了一門極難卻大受歡迎而空前絕後的機率課(18.313，此後MIT未曾有人再開設此門課程)。羅塔亦開過18.001 (微積分的應用)、18.03 (微分方程), 以及18.315(組合理論)

羅塔以泛函分析研究起家，但他後來的專業興趣轉向組合學，並成為一位傑出的組合學家。

外部链接

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.
Mathematics, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence: a dialogue with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp
"Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties" by Gian-Carlo Rota.
Tribute page by Prof. Catherine Yan (Texas A&M University), a former student of Rota 
Scanned copy of Gian-Carlo Rota's and Kenneth Baclawski's Introduction to Probability and Random Processes manuscript in its 1979 version. 
 , ISBN 0-8176-3866-0; review at MAA.org 
The Digital Footprint of Gian-Carlo Rota : International Conference in memory of Gian-Carlo Rota, organized by the University of Milan (Italy)

20世紀數學家
組合學家
普林斯頓大學校友
耶魯大學校友
麻省理工學院教授
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