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Mark Kac

1914 - 1984

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Mark Kac ( KAHTS; Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Kac has received more than 172,745 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mark Kac is the 871st most popular mathematician (down from 809th in 2019), the 901st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 765th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mark Kac ranks 871 out of 1,004. Before him are James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Francesco Severi, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Thomas Heath, Solomon Marcus, and George Salmon. After him are Salomon Bochner, Anatoly Karatsuba, Henryk Iwaniec, James Arthur, Volker Strassen, and Barry Mazur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Mark Kac ranks 348. Before him are Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Billy Eckstine, Estelle Reiner, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Kay Stammers, and Larry Adler. After him are Xosé María Díaz Castro, Ahmet Kireççi, Bill Erwin, Louis Chaillot, R. A. Lafferty, and Conyers Herring. Among people deceased in 1984, Mark Kac ranks 234. Before him are Ken Armstrong, William D'Amico, Renato Perona, Mary Miles Minter, Hans Jacobson, and Neil Hamilton. After him are Pascale Ogier, Eino Purje, Jan Peerce, Otto Arosemena, Roland Penrose, and Paul Felix Schmidt.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mark Kac ranks 901 out of 1,365. Before him are Andriy Parubiy (1971), Andriy Kuzmenko (1968), Leonid Fedun (1956), Joseph Ruttenberg (1889), Nadezhda Tkachenko (1948), and Sophie Tucker (1886). After him are Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha (1958), Valentina Rastvorova (1933), Yevhen Konoplyanka (1989), Isaac Schwartz (1923), Yozhef Betsa (1929), and Hanka Bielicka (1915).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Mark Kac ranks 30. Before him are Alexander Ostrowski (1893), Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894), Andrzej Mostowski (1913), Maryna Viazovska (1984), Juliusz Schauder (1899), and Yuri Linnik (1914). After him are Leonid Levin (1948), and Svetlana Jitomirskaya (1966).

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