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Gian-Carlo Rota

1999 - 1999

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gian-Carlo Rota is the 1,010th most popular mathematician (down from 1,001st in 2024), the 5,548th most popular biography from Italy (down from 5,282nd in 2019) and the 69th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gian-Carlo Rota ranks 1,010 out of 1,004. Before him are Olga Holtz, Noam Elkies, Pietro Boselli, Hannah Fry, Cathy O'Neil, and Charles Hoskinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1999, Gian-Carlo Rota ranks 727. Before him are Maria-Magdalena Rusu, Nick Itkin, Mads Bech Sørensen, Laura Unuk, Connor Metcalfe, and Matthew Richardson. After him are Do Gyeong-dong, Powfu, Mathilde Gros, Ty Panitz, Nathaniel Atkinson, and Mahammad Abdullayev. Among people deceased in 1999, Gian-Carlo Rota ranks 341. Before him are Menno Oosting, Vikram Batra, Ibragim Gasanbekov, David Strickland, Manoj Kumar Pandey, and Belli Lalitha.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gian-Carlo Rota ranks 5,549 out of 5,161. Before him are Silvia Di Pietro (1993), Milena Baldassarri (2001), Marco Lodadio (1992), Claudio Stecchi (1991), Emanuele Gaudiano (1986), and Francesco Cassata (1997). After him are Mauro De Filippis (1980), Giorgia Villa (2003), Matt Hughes (null), Asia D'Amato (2003), Federico Viviani (1992), and Elena Bertocchi (1994).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Gian-Carlo Rota ranks 69. Before him are Eugenio Calabi (1923), Ennio de Giorgi (1928), Corrado Segre (1863), Francesco Severi (1879), Alessio Figalli (1984), and Pietro Boselli (1988).

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