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source of text David Pierce home A Century of Mathematics in America, Part III, History of Mathematics, Volume 3, P. Duren, Ed., pp.223-236, American Mathematical Society, 1989. Gian-Carlo Rota was born in Italy, where he went to school through the ninth grade. He attended high school in Quito, Ecuador, and entered Princeton University as a freshman in 1950. Three years later, he graduated summa cum laude and went to Yale, where he received a Ph.D. in 1956 with a thesis in functional analysis under the direction ofJ. T. Schwartz. After a position at Harvard, in 1959 he moved to MIT, where he is now professor of mathematics and philosophy. He has made basic contributions to operator theory, ergodic theory, and combinatorics. The AMS recently honored him with a Steele Prize for his seminal work in algebraic combinatorics. He is a senior fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties GIAN-CARLO ROTA The present article is a draft for a chapter of a book which the author is under contract to write for the Sloan science series.

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Skip to content massachusetts institute of technology news office advanced search news recent research campus by topic ... archives services request images subscribe submit news promote news ... media inquiries about us news office info MIT background contact MIT professor Gian-Carlo Rota, mathematician and philosopher, is dead at 66 April 22, 1999 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gian-Carlo Rota, an internationally respected mathematician and philosopher and a dedicated and beloved teacher, died of heart failure in his home earlier this week. He was 66. Dr. Rota apparently died in his sleep. He was found in bed in his night clothes on the afternoon of Monday, April 19, after failing to arrive in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon for a series of three lectures he was to give this week at Temple University. The cause of death was atherosclotic cardiovascular disease, according to the Middlesex County Medical Examiner. Dr. Rota was the only MIT faculty member ever to hold the title of Professor of Applied Mathematics and Philosophy. As a mathematician, he is credited with having transformed his specialty area, combinatorics which he described as "putting different colored marbles in different colored boxes, seeing how many ways you can divide them" from an insignificant field to one of the most important areas of mathematics today.

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Gian-Carlo Rota Internationally recognized mathematician and beloved professor, Gian-Carlo Rota died last weekend, apparently in his sleep. He was 66 years old. Rota was found Monday afternoon after he failed to arrive in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, where he was to give a three-part lecture series at Temple University earlier this week. The cause of death was ruled as artherosclerotic cardiac disease by the Middlesex County Medical Examiner. Rota held appointments at MIT as professor both of applied mathematics and philosophy, the only MIT professor in history to do so. He taught several courses in both fields. As a mathematician, Rota helped lay the foundations for modern combinatorics and develop the field into a respected discipline within mathematics. Rota was also a philosopher working in the 20th century continental tradition of phenomenology. His most recent book Indiscrete Thoughts, published by Birkhauser has been nominated by the 1999 Edwin Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in phenomenology presented by the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. A great teacher At MIT, however, Rota is probably best known as a great teacher.

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Some Advice to Young Mathematical Biologists by Kenneth Lange Recently, I read the provocative book Indiscrete Thoughts by the well-known mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota [1], who just happens to have served as my doctoral thesis advisor. Rota devotes chapters 18 and 19 of his book to giving practical career advice to mathematicians. I was so smitten by his writing that in preparing for this conference, I couldn't resist sharing his insights. Unfortunately, I got carried away and enlarged on his maxims by adding my own and some of the wonderfully dictatorial rules of composition of Strunk and White [2]. Taking charge of your education Get a broad undergraduate education in the sciences, emphasizing biology, chemistry, classical physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and statistics. Don't be inhibited about taking courses outside your major graduate department. Ignore the self-serving admonitions of most departments to the contrary. Take the minimum number of laboratory courses. You need to understand techniques, not master them. Enroll in medical school if strongly motivated. You'll get a good general education in human biology that will inform your judgment about worthy research problems.

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If you are not immediately redirected, please click here My List - Help Browse Books Archival Resources Archival Finding Aids Photos Browse FAQs Past Searches History Home Search: Author Subject Title Journal/Newspaper Title Series Computer File (Software) Title Video Title Refine Search AIP Niels Bohr Library Item Information Holdings More by this author Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967. Subjects Science United States History. Philosophy. United States Politics and government 20th century. Browse Catalog by author: Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967. by title: Uncommon sense / J. ... MARC Display Uncommon sense / J. Robert Oppenheimer ; by N. Metropolis, Gian-Carlo Rota, and David Sharp, editors. by Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967. Call Number: N8 OPP:A Description: ix, 195 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN: Added Author: Metropolis, N. (Nicholas), 1915- Rota, Gian-Carlo, 1932- Sharp, D. H. (David Howland), 1938- Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Niels Bohr Library Books General Collection N8 OPP:A In NBL Format: HTML Plain text Delimited Subject: Email to: Horizon Information Portal 3.0

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Solomon Lefschetz Here is an extract from Fine Hall in its golden age: Remembrances of Princeton in the early fifties by Gian-Carlo Rota, a series of recollections of reknown mathematicians viewed with all their glorious mannerisms. Solomon Lefschetz No one who talked to Lefschetz failed to be struck by his rudeness. I met him one afternoon at tea, in the fall term of my first year at Princeton, in the Fine Hall common room. He asked me if I was a graduate student: after I answered in the negative, he turned his back and behaved as if I did not exist. In the spring term, he suddenly began to notice my presence. He even remembered my name, to my astonishment. At first, I felt flattered until (perhaps a year later) I realized that what he remembered was not me, but the fact that that I had an Italian name. He had the highest regard for the great Italian algebraic geometers, for Castelnuovo, Enriques, and Severi, who were slightly older than he was, and who were his equals in depth of thought as well as in sloppiness of argument. "You should have gone to school in Rome in the twenties. That was the Princeton of its time!" he told me. He was rude to everyone, even to the people who doled out funds in Washington and to mathematicians who were his equals. I recall, Lefschetz meeting Zariski, probably in 1957 (while Hironaka was already working on the proof of the resolution of singularities for algebraic varieties). After exchanging with Zariski warm and loud Jewish greetings (in Russian), he proceeded to proclaim loudly (in English) his skepticism on the possibility of resolving singularities for all algebraic varieties. "Ninety percent proved is zero percent proved!," he retorted to Zariski's protestations, as a conversation stopper. He had reacted similarly to several other previous attempts that he had to shoot down. Two years later he was proved wrong. However, he had the satisfaction of having been wrong only once.

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*Concerns of Young Mathematicians* Volume 4, Issue 25 August 21, 1996 An electronically distributed digest for discussions of the issues of concern to mathematicians at the beginning of their careers. At a conference held in honor of Gian-Carlo Rota this past April, Rota delivered a presentation of advice for mathematicians young and old. We're pleased to present a transcript that Rota submitted Emil Volcheck Ten lessons I wish I had been taught by Gian-Carlo Rota MIT April 20, 1996 Allow me to begin by allaying one of your worries. I will not spend the next half hour thanking you for participating in this conference, or for your taking time away from your work in order to travel to Cambridge. And to allay another of your probable worries, let me hasten to add that you are not about to be subjected to a tale of past events, similar to the recollections that I have been publishing for some years, with a straight face and with an occasional embellishment of reality. Dirk Struik was right; a speaker should try to give his audience something they can take home with them. But what? Over the years, I have been collecting some random bits of advice that I keep repeating to myself, do's and don'ts of which I have been and will always be guilty. Some of you have been exposed to one or more of these tidbits. Collecting these items and presenting them in one speech may be one of the less obnoxious among options of equal presumptuousness. The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need. Since it is too late for me to learn these lessons, I will try to discharge my unfulfilled duty by dishing them out to you. They will be stated in order of increasing controversiality.

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