Mark Kac
Impact in
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics top 0.1%
- Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
- Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
- Mathematical Physics top 0.2%
- Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
- Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics
Papers in
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- Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics 13
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- Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics 7
- Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics 5
- Co-authors
- Gábor Szegő (3 shared papers)G. E. Uhlenbeck (6 shared papers)Ulf Grenander (1 shared paper)T. H. Berlin (1 shared paper)Luis A. Santaló (1 shared paper)G. W. Ford (2 shared papers)P. C. Hemmer (3 shared papers)P. Mazur (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Science (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)Physics Today (5 papers)Physical Review Letters (3 papers)Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesAustraliaIsrael
In The Last Decade
Mark Kac
108 papers receiving 8.9k citations
Mark Kac's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 171
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3.3k
- Mathematical Physics 2.0k
- Condensed Matter Physics 1.8k
- Applied Mathematics 1.4k
- Statistics and Probability 783
Countries citing papers authored by Mark Kac
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Co-authors
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 116 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toeplitz Forms and Their Applications Hit paper breakdown → | 1958 | 1358 |
| 2 | The Spherical Model of a Ferromagnet Hit paper breakdown → | 1952 | 761 |
| 3 | Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? Hit paper breakdown → | 1966 | 715 |
| 4 | Statistical Mechanics of Assemblies of Coupled Oscillators Hit paper breakdown → | 1965 | 668 |
| 5 | Integral Geometry and Geometric Probability Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 652 |
| 6 | On the van der Waals Theory of the Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium. I. Discussion of a One-Dimensional Model Hit paper breakdown → | 1963 | 627 |
| 7 | Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? Hit paper breakdown → | 1966 | 513 |
| 8 | Probability and Related Topics in Physical Sciences Hit paper breakdown → | 1960 | 449 |
| 9 | A stochastic model related to the telegrapher's equation Hit paper breakdown → | 1974 | 424 |
| 10 | 1981 | 240 | |
| 11 | 1975 | 227 | |
| 12 | 1977 | 216 | |
| 13 | 1952 | 199 | |
| 14 | 1957 | 176 | |
| 15 | 1959 | 173 | |
| 16 | 1984 | 171 | |
| 17 | 1987 | 158 | |
| 18 | 1973 | 130 | |
| 19 | 1955 | 130 | |
| 20 | 1954 | 123 |
About Mark Kac
Mark Kac is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Mathematical Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistics and Probability, having authored 116 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (13 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (10 papers), Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics (7 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (6 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (6 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (5 papers), Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics (4 papers) and Matrix Theory and Algorithms (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (3.3k citations), Mathematical Physics (2.0k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (1.8k citations), Applied Mathematics (1.4k citations) and Statistics and Probability (783 citations). Mark Kac has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Gábor Szegő, G. E. Uhlenbeck, Ulf Grenander, T. H. Berlin, Luis A. Santaló, G. W. Ford, P. C. Hemmer, P. Mazur, Pierre van Moerbeke and Rafael D. Benguria. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physics Today, Physical Review Letters and Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
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