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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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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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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"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 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...
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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...
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Knight's Armament Company (redirect from KAC GatMalite)
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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