Miklós Csörgő

Miklós Csörgő (born 12 March 1932 in Egerfarmos) is a Hungarian probabilist and statistician known for his contributions to the theory of empirical processes and several other fields.

Education and career Csörgő obtained a Bachelor's degree in economics in Budapest in 1955. He arrived in Canada in January 1957 as a refugee of the suppressed Hungarian Revolution. After a variety of odd jobs, in 1959 he enrolled at McGill University in Montreal where he earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1961 and 1963 respectively.

After graduating, he held positions as postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Princeton University for two years. In 1965 he returned to McGill University to take up a position as assistant professor; he was promoted to associate professor there in 1968. In 1972, he moved to Carleton University in Ottawa as a professor of mathematics and statistics, where he became Distinguished Research Professor after his retirement.

One of his students was his brother, Sándor Csörgő, who was fifteen years his junior.

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