Category:Mark Kac

**Mark Kac**
	mathematician (1914–1984)
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Name in native language	Marek Kac;
Date of birth	3 August 1914 (in Julian calendar); Kremenets (Russian Empire); Marek Kac
Date of death	25 October 1984; Los Angeles
Place of burial	cremation;
Country of citizenship	United States of America; Poland;
Educated at	Lviv University (1931–1937); Johns Hopkins University (1938–1939); Krzemieniec Lyceum (1925–1931);
Doctoral advisor	Hugo Steinhaus;
Doctoral student	Daniel W. Stroock (1967); Abdulalim Abdullah Shabazz (1955); Harry Kesten (1958); Daniel Burrill Ray (1953); Murray Rosenblatt (1949); William J. LeVeque (1947); Murray R. Spiegel (1949); Anatole Joffe (1959); Abraham Morton Mark (1948); Wayne W. Barrett (1975); Ronald Forrest Fox (1969); Talbot Michael Katz (1982); William Newcomb (1952);
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	University of Southern California (1981–1984); Cornell University (1939–1961); Utrecht University (Q62416146, visiting scholar, 1980–1980); Leiden University (Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Dutch extraordinary professor, 1962–1963); The Rockefeller University (1961–1981);
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1946–);
Field of work	probability theory; mathematics; spectral theory;
Child	Michael B. Kac;
Notable work	Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiography. By Mark Kac. Harper & Row; Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?; Random Walk and the Theory of Brownian Motion; On Some Probabilistic Aspects of Classical Analysis; Erdős–Kac theorem; Kac–Bernstein theorem; Feynman–Kac formula; Weyl–Kac character formula;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1946); George David Birkhoff Prize (1978); Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1967); Chauvenet Prize (1968, 1950); Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1967); Jurzykowski Prize (1976); Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1946);
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