Charles J. Stone

Charles "Chuck" Joel Stone (July 13, 1936 – April 16, 2019) was an American statistician and mathematician.

Early life Charles Joel Stone was born and raised in Los Angeles. After secondary school at North Hollywood High School, Stone graduated with a Bachelor of Science in science from the California Institute of Technology in 1958. He then matriculated at Stanford University, where in 1961 he received his PhD in statistics. His PhD thesis Limit Theorems for Birth and Death Processes and Diffusion Processes was supervised by Samuel Karlin.

Career From 1962 to 1964 Stone was an assistant professor in the mathematics department of Cornell University. From 1964 1981 to he was a faculty member of the mathematics department of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), where he worked extensively with Leo Breiman (who moved to Berkeley in 1980) and Sidney Charles Port (born 1935). In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1970 and a Fellow of the Class of 2013 (announced in 2012) of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Personal life In June 1966 he married Barbara L. Cohn in Los Angeles. They had two sons.