Paul Deheuvels
Paul Deheuvels | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 March 1948 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Died | 30 January 2026 (aged 77) |
| Known for | Probability, statistics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, statistics, probability |
| Institutions | Pierre and Marie Curie University, ISUP |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Dugué |
| Doctoral students | Adrian Raftery Judith Rousseau Zhan Shi |
Paul Deheuvels (11 March 1948 – 30 January 2026) was a French statistician and a specialist in probability.[1]
From 1974 to 2013, Paul Deheuvels was a professor of mathematics at the University of Pierre-et-Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University) in Paris before being appointed professor emeritus.[2] He taught probability and statistics.[1]
Deheuvels was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[3] in 1985, and Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2000.[4] He was also a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and a foreign corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain.[5]
Education
Deheuvels completed his secondary education at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, France, at the age of 17. After preparatory classes in mathematics at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he was admitted in 1967, at the age of 19, to the École Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm.[6]
Research
Deheuvels' work was in the fields of extreme value theory, empirical processes, nonparametric estimation of tails and tail indices, extreme dependence and extreme copula (statistics).[1]
Séralini affair
The Séralini affair was the controversy surrounding the publication, retraction, and republication of a journal article by French molecular biologist Gilles-Éric Séralini. The study was criticized by various regulatory authorities and scientists prior to retraction. With few exceptions, the scientific community dismissed the study and called for a more rigorous peer-review system in scientific journals.[7] Deheuvels was one scientist who supported the study.
Death
Deheuvels died on 30 January 2026, at the age of 77.[8]
Books
- L’Intégrale, Presses Universitaires de France, 1980 (ISBN 2130366481).
- La recherche scientifique, Que sais-je?, 1990 (ISBN 9782130432418).
- Lectures on Empirical Processes: Theory and Statistical Applications, EMS Series of Lectures in Mathematics, 2007 [9].
- Probabilité, Hasard et Incertitude (Que sais-je ?), PUF, 2008 (ISBN: 9782130571254).
References
- ^ a b c Mathematical Statistics and Limit Theorems: Festschrift in Honour of Paul Deheuvels. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2015. ISBN 3319124412.
- ^ "Paul Deheuvels Académie des Sciences".
- ^ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). www.lsta.upmc.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
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- ^ "Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales".
- ^ "L'Annuaire | a-Ulm". Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^ Martinelli, L; Karbarz, M; Siipi, H (February 2013). "Science, safety, and trust: the case of transgenic food". Croatian Medical Journal. 54 (1): 91–6. doi:10.3325/cmj.2013.54.91. PMC 3584506. PMID 23444254.
- ^ Paul Deheuvels (in French)
- ^ "Paul Deheuvels – Lectures on empirical processes".