Mark Kac (/kɑːts/ KAHTS; Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory...

The Feynman–Kac formula, named after Richard Feynman and Mark Kac, establishes a link between parabolic partial differential equations and stochastic...

Eduardo Kac (born 1960), Brazilian-American artist Mac Kac (1920–1987), French jazz drummer Mark Kac (1914–1984), Polish-American mathematician Victor Kac (born...

In number theory, the Erdős–Kac theorem, named after Paul Erdős and Mark Kac, and also known as the fundamental theorem of probabilistic number theory...

units, bipods, and vertical foregrips. KAC produces sound suppressors for the Heckler & Koch Mark 23 SOCOM pistol. KAC also produces a line of clip-on night...

"Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?" is the title of a 1966 article by Mark Kac in the American Mathematical Monthly which made the question famous, though...

In ergodic theory, Kac's lemma, demonstrated by mathematician Mark Kac in 1947, is a lemma stating that in a measure space the orbit of almost all the...

Rota claimed that the expression "proof by intimidation" was coined by Mark Kac, to describe a technique used by William Feller in his lectures: He took...

In statistical mechanics, the Kac ring is a toy model introduced by Mark Kac in 1956 to explain how the second law of thermodynamics emerges from time-symmetric...

Mathematics or contributed to The Scottish Book: Stefan Banach Karol Borsuk Mark Kac Stefan Kaczmarz Bronisław Knaster Kazimierz Kuratowski Stanisław Saks Juliusz...

a challenge known as the "Ten Martini Problem" after the reward that Mark Kac offered for solving it. The 2000 list was a refinement of a similar set...

expression. The founders of the theory were Paul Erdős, Aurel Wintner and Mark Kac during the 1930s, one of the periods of investigation in analytic number...

H. Hardy and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Along with Stanisław Mazur, Mark Kac, Włodzimierz Stożek, Kuratowski, and others, Ulam was a member of the Lwów...

Halmos Adventures of a Mathematician - Stanislaw Ulam Enigmas of Chance - Mark Kac Random Curves - Neal Koblitz Love and Math - Edward Frenkel Mathematics...

Fitch, Tomlinson Holman, Jascha Heifetz, Henry Jenkins, Thomas H. Jordan, Mark Kac, Pierre Koenig, Neil Leach, Leonard Maltin, Daniel L. McFadden, Viet Thanh...

someone's "third son" and so on. According to his student and biographer, Mark Kac, Steinhaus told him that the happiest day of his life were the twenty four...

{\displaystyle c_{1}} . The process is also known under the names Kac process (after mathematician Mark Kac), and dichotomous random process. The master equation...

conduction. It was first described by Frank Spitzer (1964), and it was used by Mark Kac and Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger (1973, 1974) to explain results of a Bose–Einstein...

by Weierstrass, his teacher, he said in Latin, 'The Master forbids it'. Mark Kac, quoted by Reed & Simon (1978, p. 38) In mathematics, Borel summation is...

This theorem was proved independently by Polish-American mathematician Mark Kac and Soviet mathematician Sergei Bernstein. Let ξ {\displaystyle \xi }  ...

Princeton, New Jersey, for the next ten years. Despite outstanding papers with Mark Kac and Aurel Wintner on probabilistic number theory, Pál Turán in approximation...

π i = 2 − N ( N i ) {\displaystyle \pi _{i}=2^{-N}{\tbinom {N}{i}}} . Mark Kac proved in 1947 that if the initial system state is not equilibrium, then...

theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Tibor Gallai Erdős–Kac theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős and Mark Kac Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem Mathematics Paul Erdős, Ke Zhao...

process as n {\displaystyle n} tends to infinity. This was obtained by Mark Kac. Heuristically one may obtain this as follows. Let X t ( n ) := X [ n t...

expressed as "Can one hear the shape of a drum?", the popular phrase due to Mark Kac. A refinement of Weyl's asymptotic formula obtained by Pleijel and Minakshisundaram...

Steinhaus Stanisław Mazur Stanisław Ulam Józef Schreier Juliusz Schauder Mark Kac Antoni Łomnicki Stefan Kaczmarz Herman Auerbach Włodzimierz Stożek Stanisław...

economics and quantum finance), and the Feynman–Kac formula of statistical mechanics.: 44  When mathematician Mark Kac attended a lecture by Richard Feynman he...

Itô (1915–2008) Jean Jacod (born 1944) Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) Mark Kac (1914–1984) Olav Kallenberg (born 1939) Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016) Samuel...

Whyburn 1941 Saunders Mac Lane 1944 R. H. Cameron 1947 Paul Halmos 1950 Mark Kac 1953 E. J. McShane 1956 Richard H. Bruck 1960 Cornelius Lanczos 1963 Philip...

functional analysis, Hugo Steinhaus, Karol Borsuk, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Mark Kac and many other notable mathematicians would gather there. The café building...