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Gian-Carlo Rota on Analysis and Probability - Selected Papers and Commentaries (Hardcover, 2003 ed.) Loot Price: R3,386
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Gian-Carlo Rota on Analysis and Probability - Selected Papers and Commentaries (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): Joseph P.S. Kung

Gian-Carlo Rota on Analysis and Probability - Selected Papers and Commentaries (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)

Joseph P.S. Kung; Jean Dhombres; Edited by Norton Starr

Series: Contemporary Mathematicians

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Gian-Carlo Rota was born in Vigevano, Italy, in 1932. He died in Cambridge, Mas sachusetts, in 1999. He had several careers, most notably as a mathematician, but also as a philosopher and a consultant to the United States government. His mathe matical career was equally varied. His early mathematical studies were at Princeton (1950 to 1953) and Yale (1953 to 1956). In 1956, he completed his doctoral thesis under the direction of Jacob T. Schwartz. This thesis was published as the pa per "Extension theory of differential operators I", the first paper reprinted in this volume. Rota's early work was in analysis, more specifically, in operator theory, differ ential equations, ergodic theory, and probability theory. In the 1960's, Rota was motivated by problems in fluctuation theory to study some operator identities of Glen Baxter (see [7]). Together with other problems in probability theory, this led Rota to study combinatorics. His series of papers, "On the foundations of combi natorial theory", led to a fundamental re-evaluation of the subject. Later, in the 1990's, Rota returned to some of the problems in analysis and probability theory which motivated his work in combinatorics. This was his intention all along, and his early death robbed mathematics of his unique perspective on linkages between the discrete and the continuous. Glimpses of his new research programs can be found in [2,3,6,9,10].

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Imprint: Birkhauser Boston
Country of origin: United States
Series: Contemporary Mathematicians
Release date: December 2002
First published: 2003
Editors: Joseph P.S. Kung
Authors: Jean Dhombres
Editors: Norton Starr
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 382
Edition: 2003 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-4275-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Calculus & mathematical analysis > Vector & tensor analysis
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Barcode: 9780817642754

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