Talk:Mark Kac

Ukrainian?
I think he should not be in the category of Ukrainian mathematicians, he had nothing really to do with Ukraine, since he left Europe before the second world war. He was born in the Polish part of Russia which became part of the Polish Republic after the First World War.Pius (talk) 13:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. I don't think it's appropriate to list him as Ukrainian, nor for that matter to list this article as a stub (it is more start-class). But since the article is protected, we need to go through channels to make such changes. Unless I see some significant dissent within a week or so, I'll make a protected-edit request to remove the Ukrainian claims from the article. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:07, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I was about to make an editprotected request but then I realized that the article is only semi-protected, so I'll just go ahead and make the edits myself. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from, 17 October 2011
The question quoted in the passage

His question, "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.)

differs from the one in Kac's paper, whose title asked "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" (see, e.g., the page linked to the quote). I propose the text here be changed to agree with Kac's title.

VenetianRed (talk) 17:07, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I changed it. You could register an account, make a few edits and change it yourself. But I think the protection on this article is a bit outdated.  Volunteer Marek   18:15, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 23:13, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

does the typo story involving the word "rigger" belong here?
offensive, not funny, maybe was at the time.--Jrm2007 (talk) 21:50, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Finished or furnished?
" ... finished the proof using sieve theory."

Is the word 'finished' intended to imply 'supplied' ? Or does it mean 'completed' ?

The usual expression is 'he furnished the proof that was required ( or lacking ) 121.44.36.227 (talk) 10:17, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * It means "completed". In the context of the previous "unable to provide a complete proof", "finished" is more natural than "furnished". —David Eppstein (talk) 11:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Mark Kac. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130207025134/http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/mkac01 to http://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/mkac01

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 10:07, 3 June 2017 (UTC)