 michel loÃ¨ve (january 22, 1907 â february 17, 1979) was a french american probabilist and a mathematical statistician, of palestinian jewish origin.http://www.jehps.net/juin2010/simon.pdf he is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the karhunenâloÃ¨ve theorem and karhunenâloÃ¨ve transform. michel loÃ¨ve 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 universitÃ© de paris under paul lÃ©vy, and received his docteur Ã¨s sciences (mathÃ©matiques) 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, loÃ¨ve (1955), 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 he became between 1944 and 1946 chief of research at the institut henri poincarÃ© 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 earliest book on measure-theoretic probability theory and one of the best known textbooks."for a long time loeve's book served as the standard textbook on advanced probability theory", in hoffman-jorgensen, j. (1994). probability with a view towards statistics (vol. 2). crc press, http://books.google.com/books?id=o
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