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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Gian‐Carlo Rota

Gian‐Carlo Rota publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Geometry and Topology and Mathematical Physics, on topics such as Mathematics and Applications, History and Theory of Mathematics and Advanced Topics in Algebra.

OpenAlex
World rank
#8,408
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,049
of 358,040
Works
243
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
7.4

What does Gian‐Carlo Rota research?

Computational Theory and Mathematics: 11.8%Geometry and Topology: 8.9%Mathematical Physics: 8.9%Artificial Intelligence: 6.1%other fields: 64.3%12%top field
Computational Theory and Mathematics11.8%Geometry and Topology8.9%Mathematical Physics8.9%Artificial Intelligence6.1%other fields64.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics12% of their works
  2. 2Geometry and Topology9% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics9% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5Statistics and Probability6% of their works
  6. 6Applied Mathematics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gian‐Carlo Rota's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geometry, Historical Sources, Hyperbolic, Mathematics Education, Deformations, Hom-Lie Algebras, Algorithmic Information Theory and Computability.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Geometry131 topic
  2. Historical Sources131 topic
  3. Hyperbolic131 topic
  4. Mathematics Education131 topic
  5. Deformations91 topic
  6. Hom-Lie Algebras91 topic
  7. Algorithmic Information Theory81 topic
  8. Computability81 topic
  9. Cluster Algebras61 topic
  10. Fuzzy Logic61 topic
  11. Residuated Lattices61 topic
  12. Triangulated Categories61 topic
  13. Deformation Quantization51 topic
  14. Point Processes51 topic
  15. Poisson Manifolds51 topic
  16. Spatstat51 topic

Where does Gian‐Carlo Rota work?

Gian‐Carlo Rota's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gian‐Carlo Rota have?

Science Explorer counts 243 works and 1,806 citations for Gian‐Carlo Rota, ranking #8,408 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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