Lovely to see this little piece of @MIT & math history here in the office of @FedericoArdila. Rota's family had to flee fascist death squadspic.twitter.com/VywxMCrxtN
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and leave Italy when he was 13. He went on to found the mathematical field of modern combinatorics, what I call "the math of possibilities"pic.twitter.com/Hw9OcDwGg5
I love his book "Indiscrete Thoughts". Had dinner with him at a Los Alamos Subway shop when I was 23(?). Totally in awe.
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https://twitter.com/federicoardila/status/833927125992247297 … we are missing our copy :(
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Oh no! I miss my copy (in storage in Toronto).
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