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Enigmas of Chance: An Autobiography [Paperback]

Mark Kac (Author)
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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr (May 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520059867
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520059863
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, great math., January 3, 2012
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Mark Kac's autobiography not only makes a good story, but also informs the reader of some very important developments in mathematics that he was at the center of. For example, he and Richard Feynman overlapped at Cornell and produced the Feynman-Kac Integral Formula, which brings an unusual degree of rigor into Feynmann's physics (the real number case, anyway.)

Kac worked very hard reading Norbert Wiener's research papers on Wiener processes, which enable him to further develop path integrals and stochastic processes. In layman's terms, Brownian motion and Brown noise.

If you like this book, you should read Stan Ulam's autobiography Adventures of a Mathematician and the wonderful popular book Mathematics and Logic they wrote together.
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