Harry Kesten

Harry Kesten
Harry Kesten at Cornell University, 1970
Born
Harry Kesten

(1931-11-19)November 19, 1931
Duisburg, Germany
DiedMarch 29, 2019(2019-03-29) (aged 87)
Ithaca, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseDoraline Kesten
Children1
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Symmetric Random Walks on Groups  (1958)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral studentsMaury Bramson[5]
Websitewww.math.cornell.edu/People/Faculty/kesten.html

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.

  1. ^ List of Wald Lecturers
  2. ^ 2001 Steele Prizes, Volume 48, Number 4, Notices of the AMS, April 2001.
  3. ^ "H. Kesten". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
  4. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved January 27, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Harry Kesten at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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