Mark Kac

Mark Kac 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 geometry, the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry.

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Who was born first?

• Mark Kac and Renato Dulbecco were born the same year
• Mark Kac and Raymond Davis Jr. were born the same year
• Mark Kac and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin were born the same year
• Mark Kac and James A. Van Allen were born the same year
• Mark Kac and Jack Parsons were born the same year

Timeline

1. Alan Lloyd HodgkinFebruary 5, 1914 – December 20, 1998
2. Jack ParsonsOctober 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952
3. James A. Van AllenSeptember 7, 1914 – August 9, 2006
4. Mark Kac (this page)August 3, 1914 – October 25, 1984
5. Raymond Davis Jr.October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006
6. Renato DulbeccoFebruary 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012

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• Ernest RutherfordAugust 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937
• Erwin SchrödingerAugust 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961
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