Editing Gian-Carlo Rota (section)

==Early life and education==
Rota was born in [[Vigevano]], [[Italy]]. His father, Giovanni, an architect and prominent [[antifascist]], was the brother of the mathematician Rosetta, who was the wife of the writer [[Ennio Flaiano]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{MacTutor Biography|id=Rota}}</ref><ref name="palombi">{{cite book | title = The Star and the Whole: Gian-Carlo Rota on Mathematics and Phenomenology | url = https://archive.org/details/starwholegiancar00palo | url-access = limited | last1 = Palombi  |first1 = Fabrizio | pages = [https://archive.org/details/starwholegiancar00palo/page/n15 6]–7 | publisher = [[CRC Press]] | year = 2011 | isbn = 9781568815831 | quote = His aunt, Rosetta Rota (1911–2003), was a mathematician associated with the renowned Rome university Institute of Physics in Via Panispenra… }}</ref>  Gian-Carlo's family left Italy when he was 13 years old, initially going to [[Switzerland]].

Rota attended the [[Colegio Americano de Quito]] in Ecuador, and graduated with an A.B. in mathematics from [[Princeton University]] in 1953 after completing a senior thesis, titled "On the solubility of linear equations in [[topological vector space]]s", under the supervision of [[William Feller]]. He then pursued graduate studies at [[Yale University]], where he received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in mathematics in 1956 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Extension Theory Of Ordinary Linear [[Differential operator|Differential Operators]]", under the supervision of [[Jacob T. Schwartz]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=American Mathematical Society {{!}} Gian-Carlo Rota (1932–1999)|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200002/mem-rota.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Extension Theory Of Ordinary Linear Differential Operators|url=https://orbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=14963958|publisher=Yale University|date=1956|place=New Haven, Connecticut|first=Gian Carlo|last=Rota}}</ref>