| LC control no. | n 84073481 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Liggett, Thomas M. (Thomas Milton), 1944-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Liggett, T. M. (Thomas Milton), 1944-2020 Liggett, Thomas Milton, 1944-2020 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000109138725 71455862 Q2425961 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1944-03-29 |
| Death date | 2020-05-12 |
| Place of birth | Danville (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Mathematics Probabilities |
| Affiliation | University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Mathematics Stanford University |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers University and college faculty members Mathematicians |
| Found in | His Interacting particle systems, c1985: CIP t.p. (Thomas M. Liggett) galley (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles) LC data base, 7/31/84 (hdg.: Liggett, Thomas Milton, 1944-; usage: T.M. Liggett) Wikipedia via WWW, viewed on 11/13/2020 (Thomas M. Liggett; 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; moved to Stanford, taking classes with Kai Lai Chung, and writing a PhD thesis in 1969 with advisor Samuel Karlin on problems associated with the invariance principle. He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1969, where he spent his career until his death in May 2020; born in Danville, Kentucky; died in Los Angeles, California) CV, viewed May 3, 2024 (Thomas M. Liggett; main interests were probability theory and interacting particle systems; joined UCLA in 1969 as an assistant professor and became full professor in 1976) <https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tml/cv.html> Durrett, Rick. Obituary: Thomas M. Liggett, 1944-2020, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, dated July 16, 2020: (Thomas M. Liggett; Tom Liggett; died in Los Angeles May 12, 2020; retired from UCLA in 2011, but remained active with the Mathematics Department) <https://imstat.org/2020/07/16/obituary-thomas-m-liggett-1944-2020/> |
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