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.

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

One of his students was his brother, Sándor Csörgő, who was fifteen years his junior.^[4]

• Csörgő, M.; Horváth, L. (1997). Limit Theorems in Change-point Analysis. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-0471955221.
• Csörgő, M.; Horváth, L. (1993). Weighted Approximations in Probability and Statistics. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-0471936350.
• Csörgő, M.; Csörgő, S.; Horváth, L. (1986). An Asymptotic Theory for Empirical Reliability and Concentration Processes. Springer Lectures Notes in Statistics. Vol. 33. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-0387963594.
• Csörgő, M. (1983). Quantile Processes with Statistical Applications. CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics. Vol. 42. Philadelphia: SIAM. ISBN 978-0898711851.
• Csörgő, M.; Révész, P. (1981). Strong Approximations in Probability and Statistics. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-198540-0.