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Richard Peter Stanley (born June 23, 1944) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the
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, in
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. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Norman Levinson Professor of
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. He received his Ph.D. at
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
in 1971 under the supervision of
Gian-Carlo Rota Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 – April 18, 1999) was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, proba ...
. He is an expert in the field of
combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many a ...
and its applications to other mathematical disciplines.


Contributions

Stanley is known for his two-volume book ''Enumerative Combinatorics'' (1986–1999). He is also the author of ''Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra'' (1983) and well over 200 research articles in mathematics. He has served as thesis advisor to more than 58 doctoral students, many of whom have had distinguished careers in combinatorial research.
Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of computer sc ...
named Stanley as one of his combinatorial heroes in a 2023 interview.


Awards and honors

Stanley's distinctions include membership in the
National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nat ...
(elected in 1995), the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, the 2003
Schock Prize The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986). The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest ...
,Richard P. Stanley receives the 2003 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Combinatorics Net, 2003, retrieved 2013-12-27. a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (in
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), and election in 2012 as a fellow of the
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. In 2022 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2022
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Selected publications

* Stanley, Richard P. (1996).

2nd ed. . * Stanley, Richard P. (1997, 1999).
''Enumerative Combinatorics'', Volumes 1 and 2
Cambridge University Press. , 0-521-56069-1.


See also

* Exponential formula *
Order polynomial The order polynomial is a polynomial studied in mathematics, in particular in algebraic graph theory and algebraic combinatorics. The order polynomial counts the number of order-preserving maps from a poset to a chain of length n. These order-pres ...
* Stanley decomposition * Stanley's reciprocity theorem


References


External links


Richard Stanley's Homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanley, Richard P. 1944 births Living people Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Combinatorialists Harvard University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty Rolf Schock Prize laureates Educators from New York City Mathematicians from New York (state)