Mark Kac
Mark Kac · Science & Medicine
Probability theory; the Feynman-Kac formula
1914, Krzemieniec, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1984, Los Angeles, California, United States
Poland · United States
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Mark Kac was a Polish-American mathematician who helped found modern probability theory and its links to physics, co-created the Feynman–Kac formula, and posed the famous question 'Can one hear the shape of a drum?'; he received the Birkhoff Prize in 1978. Born to a Jewish family, he emigrated from Poland to the United States before World War II. He taught at Cornell and Rockefeller Universities.
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Probability theory; the Feynman-Kac formula
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