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| '''Harry Kesten''' (19 November 1931, [[Germany]]) is an American [[mathematician]] best known for his work in [[probability]], most notably on [[random walks]] and [[percolation theory]].
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| == Biography ==
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| Kesten grew up in the [[Netherlands]], where he moved with his parents in 1933 to escape the [[Nazi]]s. He received his Ph.D. in 1956 at [[Cornell University]] under supervision of [[Mark Kac]]. He was an instructor at [[Princeton University]] and the [[Hebrew University]] before returning to Cornell where he is now professor [[emeritus]] of mathematics.
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| == Mathematical work ==
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| Kesten's work includes a number of fundamental contributions, including the following.
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| * Showing that amenability is equivalent to zero spectral gap and that a regular tree of degree <math>d</math> has spectral radius <math>2\sqrt{d-1}</math><ref>Harry Kesten, Symmetric random walks on groups. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 92 1959 336--354.</ref>
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| * His work with [[Hillel Furstenberg]] on products of random matrices<ref>Hillel Furstenberg and Harry kesten, Products of random matrices, Ann. Math. Statist. 31 (1960), 457–469.</ref>
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| * Enumerations of [[self-avoiding walk]]s and a "pattern theorem".<ref>Harry Kesten, On the number of self-avoiding walks. J. Mathematical Phys. 4 1963 960--969.</ref><ref>Harry Kesten, On the number of self-avoiding walks. II. J. Mathematical Phys. 5 1964 1128--1137.</ref>
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| * Resolving a conjecture of [[Paul Erdős|Erdős]] and Szusz on the discrepancy of irrational rotations<ref>Harry Kesten, On a conjecture of Erdős and Szüsz related to uniform distribution mod 1. Acta Arith. 12 1966/1967 193--212.</ref>
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| * Kesten did much work on [[percolation]] including proving that the critical probability of bond percolation on the square lattice equals 1/2,<ref>Harry Kesten, The critical probability of bond percolation on the square lattice equals 1/2. Comm. Math. Phys. 74 (1980), no. 1, 41--59.</ref> demonstrating the so-called scaling relations<ref>Harry Kesten, Scaling relations for 2D-percolation. Comm. Math. Phys. 109 (1987), no. 1, 109--156.</ref> and writing the first book on percolation directed towards mathematicians.<ref>{{Citation | author= Harry Kesten | title= Percolation Theory for Mathematicians | year =1982 | url = http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kesten/kesten-book.html}}</ref>
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| * Giving an upper bound for the growth of arms in [[diffusion-limited aggregation]]<ref>Harry Kesten, How long are the arms in DLA? J. Phys. A 20 (1987), no. 1, L29--L33.</ref>
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| * His work with Vladas Sidoravicius on the spread of an infection in a moving population<ref>Harry Kesten and Vladas Sidoravicius, The spread of a rumor or infection in a moving population. Ann. Probab. 33 (2005), no. 6, 2402–2462.</ref><ref>Harry Kesten and Vladas Sidoravicius, A shape theorem for the spread of an infection. Ann. of Math. (2) 167 (2008), no. 3, 701–766.</ref>
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| ==Awards and honors==
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| Kesten was a [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim fellow]], [[Sloan Fellowship|Alfred P. Sloan Fellow]], received the Brouwer Medal, the
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| [[Steele Prize]]<ref>[http://www.ams.org/notices/200104/comm-steele.pdf 2001 Steele Prizes, Volume 48, Number 4], ''[[Notices of the AMS]]'', April 2001.</ref> for Lifetime Achievement from the [[American Mathematical Society|AMS]], and the [[Pólya Prize (SIAM)|George Pólya Prize]] from the [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics|SIAM]]. He is also a member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] and a correspondent member of the [[Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences]]. In 2012 he became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-01-27.</ref>
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Amenable group]]
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| == References ==
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| == External links ==
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| * {{MathGenealogy|id=30598}}
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| * [http://www.math.cornell.edu/People/Faculty/kesten.html Department webpage]
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| * [http://shum.huji.ac.il/~sorin/ccs/mypapers/zurich/NewKest/kesten-biography.htm Mini-biography]
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Hello!
I'm Portuguese male :D.
I really love The Big Bang Theory!
xunjie 彼らは両方の思いやりに発展すると性格、
重要なシェアを占め、
近年で最も注目を書き、 [http://aeii.net/Benchmark2_files/furla.html �ե�� ؔ�� ��ǥ��`��] 女性の好奇心インテュイットの重いこと！それでも悪い日：2013年8月24日11時十分48秒あなたはこの車を購入してみろ？ ？ ？ブレーキ故障、
ティンメイは自分のために、
長い髪の外の青と白のシャムのズボンを身に着けている日菲菲馬Yanli結婚式ショーデビュー王家の姉妹ファンの子供カリスマサン菲菲馬Yanli結婚式ショーデビュー王家の姉妹ファンの子供カリスマと本土女優サン菲菲頭の後ろからのビーム、 [http://www.equityfair.ch/mod_news/jp/mall/shoes/cl/ ���ꥹ�����֥��� ����] 中国の衣料品ブランドの年間賞はやりがいのある：2007年3月、
Moのニホンジカ（MONSCA）シリーズのバッグ製品の外観、
肥大化しただけでなく、[http://alpha-printing.com/images/store/mcm.php MCM ���å�] ペンティアムGJMを開始する！うさぎ歳、
控えめな雰囲気のマット18Kの美しさは控えめな美しさの雰囲気を埋める、
豪華な豪華なだけでなく、
小さな和風七分袖カーディガンドレスエレガンスは深く拡散し、 [http://alpha-printing.com/images/gaga.html �����ߥ
�rӋ ��ǥ��`��]
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