Mark Kac

Person · Open Library

Works

26

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,856x

2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,063x

3. Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

   · 1995 · cited 40,215x

4. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,691x

5. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 31,411x

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Quotes

• “There are two kinds of geniuses: the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘magicians.’ an ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they’ve done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians... Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber.”
• “Unrestricted abstraction tends to divert attention from whole areas of application whose very discovery depends of the features that the abstract point of view rules out as being accidental.”
• “Creative people live in two worlds. One is the ordinary world which they share with others and in which they are not in any special way set apart from their fellow men. The other is private and it is in this world that the creative acts take place.”
• “In the summer of 1930 my academic future, however, was not uppermost in my mind. I had been stricken by an acute attack of a disease which at regular intervals afflicts all mathematicians and, for that matter, all scientists: I became obsessed by a problem.”
• “I had a phenomenal memory and could recite long poems by Russian poets, mainly Pushkin. Except for an unusual memory, I was not precocious in any respect and somewhat later, to the chagrin of my father, I was inordinately slow learning the multiplication tables.”
• “When one is young, and seventeen is very young, one lives in the present. The future, even the near future, is cloaked in unreality.”

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