Lawrence D. Brown Explained

Lawrence David Brown
Birth Date:16 December 1940
Birth Place:Los Angeles, US
Death Place:Philadelphia, US
Fields:Statistics
Workplaces:University of California at Berkeley
Cornell University
Rutgers University
University of Pennsylvania
Alma Mater:Cornell University
California Institute of Technology
Doctoral Advisor:Jack Kiefer
Doctoral Students:Jim Berger
T. Tony Cai
Iain M. Johnstone
Constantine Gatsonis

Lawrence David (Larry) Brown (16 December 1940 – 21 February 2018)[1] [2] [3] was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory, recurrence and partial differential equations, nonparametric function estimation, minimax and adaptation theory, and the analysis of census data and call-center data.

Career

Brown was educated at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964. He earned numerous honors, including election to the United States National Academy of Sciences, and published widely, beginning with his Ph.D. research, which made major advances in admissibility.[1] He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1992–93. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.[4]

After having been assistant professor at University of California at Berkeley, associate professor at Cornell Universitywith the latter move entailing a change from a statistics to a mathematics department, allowing him to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War[1] and professor at Cornell University and Rutgers University, he was invited to join the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Personal life

Brown was born in Los Angeles to parents Louis M. Brown and Hermione Brown. He was married to Linda Zhao, a fellow statistician at the Wharton School.[5]

Honors and awards

In his honor

Selected publications

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. A Conversation with Larry Brown. DasGupta. Anirban. Statistical Science. 20. 2. 193–203. 2019. 10.1214/088342304000000288 . 123440029 . free.
  2. Book: Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications – A Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown . Biography of Lawrence D. Brown. James O. . Berger. James Berger (statistician). T. Tony . Cai. T. Tony Cai. Iain M. . Johnstone . Beachwood, Ohio, USA. . 2010. 6 . ix-x.
  3. Web site: Lawrence Brown. 2020-06-08. www.nasonline.org.
  4. http://amacad.org/news/classlist2013.pdf Newly elected members
  5. Web site: Institute of Mathematical Statistics Obituary: Lawrence Brown, 1940–2018. 2020-06-16.
  6. Web site: Lawrence D. Brown. 2020-06-08. www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu.
  7. Web site: Institute of Mathematical Statistics Honored Special Lecturers Recipient List. 2020-06-08. en.
  8. Web site: Purdue University. Honorary Doctorate Degrees, 1888-Current.
  9. Web site: Penn State Eberly College of Science Department of Statistics. C. R. Rao and Bhargavi Prize.
  10. Web site: Provost's Awards • University Archives and Records Center. 2020-06-08. University Archives and Records Center. en-US.
  11. Web site: Institute of Mathematical Statistics IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award. 2020-06-08. en.