Richard Stanley
Richard Peter Stanley (1944 - ) is an American mathematician. He is a student of Gian-Carlo Rota.
A Harvard graduate, Stanley went on to teach at MIT. His book Enumerative Combinatorics is seen as a landmark introduction to
combinatorics. The book is infamous for its exercise which presents
66 objects counted by the Catalan numbers
, then challenges the reader
to give a bijective proof of that fact. On his website, he maintains
the “Catalan addendum”, which as of 26 February 2007 includes 147
different combinatorial interpretations
for the Catalan numbers.
Stanley was awarded the Schock prize in 2003 for his contributions to combinatorics, in particular his proof of the necessity of McMullen’s conditions for a tuple to be the f-vector of a simplicial polytope (one half of the g-theorem), and for his advancement of graduate-level mathematical exposition.
In 1978, Stanley co-authored a paper on the “Enumeration of power
sums modulo a prime” in J. Number Theory 10 with Andrew
Odlyzko, giving Stanley an Erdős number (http://planetmath.org/ErdHosNumber)
of 2.
| Title | Richard Stanley |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | RichardStanley |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 17:01:02 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 17:01:02 |
| Owner | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Last modified by | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Numerical id | 7 |
| Author | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A60 |
| Classification | msc 01A61 |
| Classification | msc 01A65 |
| Synonym | Richard Peter Stanley |