Paul Deheuvels

Paul Deheuvels (11 March 1948 – 30 January 2026) was a French statistician and a specialist in probability.

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. He taught probability and statistics. in 1985, and Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2000. 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.

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.

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). Deheuvels was one scientist who supported the study.

Death Deheuvels died on 30 January 2026, at the age of 77.

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. Probabilité, Hasard et Incertitude (Que sais-je ?), PUF, 2008 (ISBN 9782130571254).