Gábor J. Székely

Gábor J. Székely ( born February 4, 1947 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician who deals with probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Székely studied with Alfred Renyi at the Lorand Eötvös University in Budapest with the graduate degree summa cum laude in 1970. 1976, he became Paul Erdős ( and Andrei Kolmogorov ) PhD ( candidate items) and 1986 habilitation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( Ph.D. in Russian system ). In 1990 he became professor at the Lorand Eötvös University, a position he held until 2005. He was also from 1990 to 1997 Professor of Stochastics at the Technical University of Budapest ( the Chair had been established there new). His research at the Alfred Renyi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he is a Senior Researcher since 1997.

In 1985, he led the energy - distance as a measure of the difference of probability distributions on ( E- statistics). He also dealt with combinatorics (for example, lottery problem) and game theory.

In 1976 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam, 1989 Visiting Professor at Yale University and in 1990/91 Eugene Lukacs Distinguished Research Professor at Bowling Green State University ( BGSU ) in Ohio. At BGSU he was professor from 1995 to 2009 and from 1999 to 2006 director of the program in Actuarial Mathematics. He was an advisor to Morgan Stanley, as this einrichteten a mathematical center in Budapest. 1985 to 1995 he headed the Budapest Semester in Mathematics, an exchange program with students from the United States.

In 1988 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2010), the International Statistical Institute (1996 ) and the American Statistical Association (2010). He was a Fellow of the Ohio Academy of Sciences, 2005.

Since 2006 he is program director of the National Science Foundation.

1990 to 1995 he was editor of the Matematikai Lapok, the Journal of the Hungarian Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • With Imre Ruzsa Algebraic Probability Theory, Wiley 1988
  • Paradoxes in probability and mathematical statistics, Wiley 1986 German translation: paradoxes, Classical and New surprises from probability and statistics, Harri German 1990
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