Download or read book The Star and the Whole written by Fabrizio Palombi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star and the Whole: Gian-Carlo Rota on Mathematics and Phenomenology, authored by Fabrizio Palombi, is the first book to study Rota's philosophical reflection. Rota (1932-1999) was a leading figure in contemporary mathematics and an outstanding philosopher, inspired by phenomenology, who made fundamental contributions to combinatorial analysis,