Thomas M. Liggett
American mathematician (1944–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Milton Liggett (March 29, 1944 – May 12, 2020) was a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles. He worked in probability theory, specializing in interacting particle systems.
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Thomas Milton Liggett | |
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Born | (1944-03-29)March 29, 1944 Danville, Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | May 12, 2020(2020-05-12) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Oberlin College (BA) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
Spouse |
Christina Marie Goodale
(m. 1972) |
Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | UCLA |
Thesis | Weak Convergence of Conditioned Sums of Independent Random Vectors (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Samuel Karlin |
Doctoral students | Norman Matloff Amber L. Puha |
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