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Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Gian-Carlo Rota

Gian-Carlo Rota

Gian-Carlo Rota

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Born: April 27, 1932

Died: April 18, 1999 (aged 66)

Bio: Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.

Known for:

Indiscrete thoughts (1997)
Gian-Carlo Rota on combinatorics (1995)
Ordinary Differential Equations (1962)
Introduction to Geometric Probability (1997)
Finite operator calculus (1975)

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