Dominique Foata

Dominique Foata
Born	October 12, 1934 (1934-10-12) (age 77) Damascus
Nationality	France
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Strasbourg
Alma mater	University of Paris
Doctoral advisor	Marcel-Paul Schützenberger Daniel Dugué
Doctoral students	Jacques Désarménien Jean Françon Laurent Habsieger Volker Strehl Jiang Zeng

Dominique Foata (born October 12, 1934) 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.

External links

• Dominique Foata at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Foata's website
• the Foata festschrift at the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 1996
• Interview with Foata (January 17, 1978, Solana Beach, CA), Eugene Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews, Cornell University Library.

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Name	Foata, Dominique
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Date of birth	October 12, 1934
Place of birth	Damascus
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