Mathematician:Mark Kac

Mathematician
Polish American mathematician whose main interests were probability theory and spectral theory.

Nationality
Polish-American

History

 * August 3, 1914 in Kremenets, in what was then the Russian Empire (now Krzemieniec in Ukraine)
 * October 26, 1984 in California

Theorems and Inventions

 * Feynman-Kac Formula (with )
 * Erdős-Kac Theorem (with )
 * Kac-Bernstein Theorem (with )
 * Kac's Lemma


 * Kac Process

Publications

 * 1958: Mathematics and Logic: Retrospect and Prospects (with )
 * 1959: Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis and Number Theory
 * 1959: Probability and related topics in the physical sciences
 * 1985: Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiography
 * 1992: Discrete Thoughts (with and )

Notable Quotes

 * W. A. Hurwitz used to say that in teaching on an elementary level one must tell the truth, nothing but the truth, but not the whole truth.
 * -- Introduction to Discrete Thoughts, by, and  ($1976)

Also known as
His name at birth was Marek Kac.

His surname is pronounced Kahts.