Dominique Foata
Encyclopedia
Dominique Foata is a mathematician
who works in enumerative combinatorics
. With Pierre Cartier
and Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
he pioneered the modern approach to classical combinatorics, that lead, in part, to the current blossoming of algebraic combinatorics
. His pioneering work on permutation statistics, and his combinatorial approach to special functions, are especially notable.
Foata gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw (1983). Among his honors are the Scientific Prize of the
Union des Assurances de Paris (September 1985). With Adalbert Kerber and Volker Strehl he founded the mathematics journal Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire.
He was born in Damascus
while it was under French mandate.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who works in enumerative combinatorics
Enumerative combinatorics
Enumerative combinatorics is an area of combinatorics that deals with the number of ways that certain patterns can be formed. Two examples of this type of problem are counting combinations and counting permutations...
. With Pierre Cartier
Pierre Cartier (mathematician)
Pierre Cartier is a mathematician. An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and category theory....
and Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. His work had impact across the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory...
he pioneered the modern approach to classical combinatorics, that lead, in part, to the current blossoming of algebraic combinatorics
Algebraic combinatorics
Algebraic combinatorics is an area of mathematics that employs methods of abstract algebra, notably group theory and representation theory, in various combinatorial contexts and, conversely, applies combinatorial techniques to problems in algebra....
. His pioneering work on permutation statistics, and his combinatorial approach to special functions, are especially notable.
Foata gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw (1983). Among his honors are the Scientific Prize of the
Union des Assurances de Paris (September 1985). With Adalbert Kerber and Volker Strehl he founded the mathematics journal Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire.
He was born in Damascus
Damascus
Damascus , commonly known in Syria as Al Sham , and as the City of Jasmine , is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major...
while it was under French mandate.
External links
- Foata's website
- the Foata festschrift at the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 1996
- Interview with Foata (January 17, 1978, Solana Beach, CA), Eugene DynkinEugene DynkinEugene Borisovich Dynkin is a Soviet and American mathematician. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes...
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