# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-kesten
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:30:05.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harry-kesten"
name: "Harry Kesten"
slug: "harry-kesten"
description: "Harry Kesten was a Jewish American mathematician best known for his work in probability, most notably on random walks on groups and graphs, random matrices, branching processes, and percolation theory."
tagline: "American mathematician (1931–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harry_Kesten.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-11-19"
deathDate: "2019-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.208604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "هاري كيستين"
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    title: "Harry Kesten"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kesten"
    title: "Harry Kesten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kesten"
    title: "Harry Kesten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump