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.

2021年8月25日 · Harry Kesten was a prominent mathematician and personality in a golden period of probability theory from 1956 to 2018. At the time of Harry’s move from the Netherlands to the USA in 1956, as a graduate student aged 24, much of …

The meaning of Kesten German: 1. from the personal name Kesten, a short form of Christian. 2. habitational name from a place near Wittlich on the Mosel river. 3. shortened form of Kestenbaum. Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

2019年4月8日 · Harry Kesten, Ph.D. ’58, the Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, whose insights advanced the modern understanding of probability theory and its applications, died March 29 in Ithaca. He was 87.

I am a probabilist. My main research interests are percolation theory and random walks, and in general I like to dabble in models inspired by statistical mechanics.

Harry Kesten (November 19, 1931 – March 29, 2019) was an American mathematician. He best known for his work in probability, most notably on random walks on groups and graphs, random matrices, branching processes and percolation theory.

The surname Kesten is of German origin and is derived from the Middle High German word "kesten," meaning "chestnut." It is a topographic surname given to someone who lived near a chestnut tree or a place where chestnuts were abundant.

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2025年2月25日 · From Proto-Brythonic, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kắstănă). Cognate with Breton kistin and Welsh castan.