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Harry Kesten was born on 19 November, 1931 in Duisburg, Germany, is an American mathematician (1931–2019). Discover Harry Kesten's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 19 November 1931
Birthday 19 November
Birthplace Duisburg, Germany
Date of death 2019
Died Place Ithaca, New York, United States
Nationality Germany

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1931

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.

Harry Kesten was born in Duisburg, Germany in 1931, and grew up in the Netherlands, where he moved with his parents in 1933 to escape the Nazis.

Surviving the Holocaust, Kesten initially studied chemistry, and later theoretical physics and mathematics, at the University of Amsterdam.

1956

He moved to the United States in 1956 and received his PhD in Mathematics in 1958 at Cornell University under the supervision of Mark Kac.

1961

He was an instructor at Princeton University and the Hebrew University before returning to Cornell in 1961.

1999

A volume of papers was published in Kesten's honor in 1999.

The Kesten memorial volume of Probability Theory and Related Fields contains a full list of the dedicatee's publications.

2019

Kesten died on March 29, 2019, in Ithaca at the age of 87.

Kesten's work includes many fundamental contributions across almost the whole of probability, including the following highlights.