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“It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.”

Quote by Mark Kac

Book:Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory

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Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory

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Mark Kac, born on August 16, 1914, in Poland, and died on October 25, 1984, in the United States, was a renowned mathematician. He made significant contributions to the fields of probability theory, statistics, and mathematical physics. more

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