Lucien Le Cam

Lucien Le Cam
Lucien Le Cam in 1987 Photo courtesy George M. Bergman
Born	November 18, 1924(1924-11-18) Croze, Creuse, France
Died	April 25, 2000(2000-04-25) (aged 75)
Nationality	French
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Jerzy Neyman
Doctoral students	Julius Blum Stephen Stigler Grace Yang
Known for	Le Cam's theorem

Lucien Marie Le Cam (November 18, 1924 – April 25, 2000) was a mathematician and statistician. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of California, Berkeley, was appointed Assistant Professor in 1953 and continued working there beyond his retirement in 1991 until his death.

Le Cam was the major figure during the period 1950 – 1990 in the development of abstract general asymptotic theory in mathematical statistics. He is best known for the general concepts of local asymptotic normality and contiguity, and for developing a metric theory of statistical experiments, recounted in his 1986 magnum opus Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Decision Theory.

Bibliography

• Le Cam, Lucien (1986). Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Decision Theory. Springer-Verlag. 
• Le Cam, Lucien; Lo Yang, Grace (2000). Asymptotics in statistics: some basic concepts. Springer. ISBN 0-387-95036-2. 
• Le Cam, Lucien (1990). "Maximum likelihood — an introduction". ISI Review 58 (2): 153–171. 

External links

• Lucien Le Cam at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Obituary of Lucien Le Cam
• In Memory of Lucien Le Cam
• Lucien Le Cam cv
• Grace L. Yang (1999) A Conversation with Lucien Le Cam, Statistical Science Volume 14, Number 2, 223-241 available through Project Euclid
• Lucien Marie Le Cam on the Mathematics Genealogy Project

There are several photographs on the Oberwolfach Photo Collection, including

• 1973

There is one on the Portraits of Statisticians page

• Lucien Le Cam