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    Mark Kac (/kɑːts/ KAHTS; Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory...
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  • The Feynman–Kac formula, named after Richard Feynman and Mark Kac, establishes a link between parabolic partial differential equations and stochastic...
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  • Eduardo Kac (born 1960), Brazilian-American artist Mac Kac (1920–1987), French jazz drummer Mark Kac (1914–1984), Polish-American mathematician Victor Kac (born...
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  • 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...
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  • This theorem was proved independently by Polish-American mathematician Mark Kac and Soviet mathematician Sergei Bernstein. Let ξ {\displaystyle \xi }  ...
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  • 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...
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    "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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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