Mark Kac: Evening

Mark Kac was Polish-American mathematician. Explore interesting quotes on evening.

Mark Kac: 34 quotes1 like

“When one is young, and seventeen is very young, one lives in the present. The future, even the near future, is cloaked in unreality.”

Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 2, Lwów, p. 29.

“I didn't even try to penetrate the comics, though many years later I came, somewhat grudgingly, to admire Pogo.”

Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 5, Cornell, p. 96.

“As a mathematician Erdös is what in other fields is called a "natural". If a problem can be stated in terms he can understand, though it may belong to a field with which he is not familiar, he is as likely as, or even more likely than, the experts to find a solution.”

Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 4, On Toast!, p. 93.