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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 161,580 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Kac is the 812th most popular mathematician (down from 748th in 2019), the 768th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 642nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mark Kac ranks 812 out of 823. Before him are Ormond Stone, Anatoly Maltsev, Horace Lamb, Cleve Moler, Radhanath Sikdar, and Barry Mazur. After him are Alexander Aitken, Heinz Prüfer, Kenneth Appel, Yury Osipov, Elwyn Berlekamp, and Volker Strassen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Mark Kac ranks 333. Before him are Alessandro Frigerio, Arnold Denker, Giuseppe Berto, Louis Gabrillargues, John Hodiak, and Erich Herrmann. After him are Max Stiepl, George Bruns, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Yuri Linnik, Grete Mostny, and Geoffrey Unsworth. Among people deceased in 1984, Mark Kac ranks 217. Before him are Peggy Ann Garner, Isaak Kikoin, Carl Foreman, Luther Adler, Marcel Balsa, and José Humberto Quintero Parra. After him are Alberta Hunter, Liam O'Flaherty, Balasaraswati, Otto Arosemena, Rudolf Stahl, and Margaret Livingston.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mark Kac ranks 768 out of 1,083. Before him are Viktor Skrypnyk (1969), Sergei Garmash (1958), Yuriy Poyarkov (1937), Victoria Zdrok (1973), Dmytro Chygrynskiy (1986), and Volodymyr Troshkin (1947). After him are Yury Onufriyenko (1961), Alexander Almetov (1940), Viktor Matviyenko (1948), Tatyana Prorochenko (1952), Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (1975), and Lilia Podkopayeva (1978).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Mark Kac ranks 25. Before him are Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), Stanisław Zaremba (1863), Stanisław Mazur (1905), Alexander Ostrowski (1893), Nikolai Chebotaryov (1894), and Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891). After him are Yuri Linnik (1914), Maryna Viazovska (1984), and Svetlana Jitomirskaya (1966).

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