What is Harry Kesten?
[[File:Harry Kesten.jpg|thumb|Kesten at [[Cornell University]], 1970]] '''Harry Kesten''' (November 19, 1931 – March 29, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He best known for his work in [[probability]], most notably on [[random walk]]s on [[Group (mathematics)|group]]s and [[Graph (mathematics)|graphs]], [[random matrix|random matrices]], [[branching process]]es and [[percolation theory]]. He wrote 191 papers and has been cited by more than 2,300 [[researcher]]s. He has been called of the most inventive and important experts of [[probability theory]]. He worked at [[Princeton University]], the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] and [[Cornell University]]. He was born in [[Duisburg]], [[Germany]] and grew up in [[the Netherlands]]. Kersten died in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]], [[New York (state)|New York]] on March 29, 2019. He was 87.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/probability-expert-harry-kesten-phd-58-dies-87|title=Probability expert Harry Kesten, Ph.D. ’58, dies at 87|author=Hayes, Matt|work=Cornell Chronicle|publisher=[[Cornell University]]|date=April 8, 2019|access-date=April 9, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{MathGenealogy|id=30598}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kesten, Harry}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Princeton University faculty]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Cornell University alumni]] [[Category:People from Duisburg]] [[Category:Cornell University faculty]] {{US-bio-stub}}