Harry Kesten
American mathematician (1931–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harry Kesten (November 19, 1931 – March 29, 2019) was a Jewish American mathematician best known for his work in probability, most notably on random walks on groups and graphs, random matrices, branching processes, and percolation theory.
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Born | Harry Kesten (1931-11-19)November 19, 1931 Duisburg, Germany |
Died | March 29, 2019(2019-03-29) (aged 87) Ithaca, New York, United States |
Nationality | American |
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Spouse | Doraline Kesten |
Children | 1 |
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Thesis | Symmetric Random Walks on Groups (1958) |
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Doctoral students | Maury Bramson[5] |
Website | www |
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