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The first lesson I learned from Gian-Carlo Rota is expressed quite effectively by the three lines quoted in the preface to Discrete Thoughts of the poem by Antonio Machado, “Meditaciones del Quijote de José Ortega y Gasset”
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Senato, D. (2011). Gian-Carlo Rota. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_26
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