Dominique Foata (born October 12, 1934) is a

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

who works in

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. More generally, given an infin ...

. With Pierre Cartier and

Marcel-Paul Schützenberger Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger (24 October 1920 – 29 July 1996) was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.Herbert Wilf, Dominique Foata, ''et al.' ...

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 Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

(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 is also one of the contributors of the pseudonymous collective M. Lothaire. In 1985, Foata received the Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet. He was born in Damascus while it was under

French mandate The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (french: Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; ar, الانتداب الفرنسي على سوريا ولبنان, al-intidāb al-fransi 'ala suriya wa-lubnān) (1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate fou ...

Selected publications

Books

* with Pierre Cartier : ''Problèmes combinatoires de commutation et réarrangements'', Lecture Notes in Mathematics, volume 85, Springer Verlag, 1969.
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avec trois nouveaux appendices, by D. Foata, B. Lass & Ch. Krattenthaler.) * with

: ''Théorie géométrique des polynômes eulériens'', Lecture Notes in Mathematics, volume 138, Springer Verlag, 1970.
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) * ''La série génératrice exponentielle dans les problèmes d'énumération'', Les Presses de l´Université de Montreal, 1974. * with Aimé Fuchs : ''Processus stochastiques'', Dunod, 2002. * with Jacques Franchi et Aimé Fuchs : ''Calcul des probabilités'', 3^e édition, Dunod, 2012. (translated into German under the title ''Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung'', by Volker Strehl. Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 1999.)

Articles

* * *with Pierre Leroux: *with

Doron Zeilberger Doron Zeilberger (דורון ציילברגר, born 2 July 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics. Education and career He received his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976, u ...

: *with Guo-Niu Han: *with Guo-Niu Han:

References

External links

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Foata's website
* ttp://dynkincollection.library.cornell.edu/biographies/838 Interview with Foata (January 17, 1978, Solana Beach, CA)

Eugene Dynkin Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (russian: link=no, Евгений Борисович Дынкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially sem ...

Collection of Mathematics Interviews, Cornell University Library. 1934 births Living people 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians Combinatorialists People from Damascus Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet laureates {{France-mathematician-stub