Michel Loève (January 22, 1907 – February 17, 1979) was a French American probabilist and a mathematical statistician, of Palestinian Jewish origin.[1] His name is known to probabilists and statisticians because of the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform.
Michel Loève | |
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| Born | January 22, 1907 |
| Died | February 17, 1979 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | French American |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Known for | Karhunen–Loève theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of Lyon, University of Paris University of London |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Lévy |
| Doctoral students | Julius Blum Leo Breiman Robert Cogburn Stanley Nash Emanuel Parzen |
Michel Loève was born in Jaffa, Palestine in 1907, during the Ottoman domination there, in a Jewish family. He passed most of his childhood years in Egypt and received his primary and secondary education there in French schools. Later, after achieving the grades of B.L. in 1931 and A.B. in 1936, he studied mathematics at the Université de Paris under Paul Lévy. and received his Docteur ès Sciences (Mathématiques) in 1941. In 1936 was employed as actuaire of the University of Lyon.
Because of his Jewish origin, he was arrested during the German occupation of France and sent to Drancy internment camp. One of his books, Loève (1955),[2] is dedicated "To Line and To the students and teachers of the School in the Camp de Drancy". Having survived the Holocaust, after the liberation became between 1944–1946 chief of researches at the Institut Henri Poincaré at Paris University, then until 1948 worked at the University of London.
After one term as a visiting professor at Columbia University he accepted the position of Professor of Mathematics at Berkeley, in 1955 adding the title Professor of Statistics.
He is the author of one of the best known textbooks on measure-theoretic probability theory. He is memorialized via the Loève Prize created by his widow Line.
See also
External links
- University of California in Memoriam
- Photographs
- Photograph from Portraits of Statisticians
- Michel Loève at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ http://www.jehps.net/juin2010/Simon.pdf
- ^ Loève, Michel (1955). Proability Theory. Princeton, New Jersey, USA: D Van Nostrand. pp. xvi+685.