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Richard P. Stanley in Oberwolfach, 1973
Richard Peter Stanley (born 1944) is the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1971 under the supervision of Gian-Carlo Rota. He is universally recognized as a leading expert in the field of combinatorics and its applications to a variety of other mathematical disciplines. He is perhaps most famous for his two-volume book Enumerative Combinatorics (1986–1999), a far-reaching and authoritative treatise on enumerative methods that is widely regarded for its elegant exposition, usefulness as a reference, and creative exercises. (Perhaps the most famous exercise is in volume 2, where readers are asked to prove that 66 different definitions of the Catalan numbers are equivalent.) He is also the author of Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra (1983) and well over 100 research articles in mathematics. He has served as thesis advisor to more than 45 doctoral students, many of whom have had distinguished careers in combinatorial research. Among Stanley's many distinctions are membership in the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1995), the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for mathematical exposition, the 2003 Schock Prize, and a plenary lecture at the 2006 meeting of the ICM (in Madrid, Spain).
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