Lucien Birgé

Lucien Birgé (born 1950 in France) is a French mathematician.

Lucien Birgé studied from 1970 to 1974 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

He then became an assistant at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6).

His research deals with parametric and nonparametric statistics, model selection, adaptation, approximation,[1] "dimension and metric entropy",[2] and "asymptotic optimality of estimators in infinite-dimensional spaces".

[3] In 2005 he received the Brouwer Medal of the Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap for the diepte, originaliteit en elegantie van zijn werk op het gebied van de mathematische statistiek (depth, originality and elegance of his work in the field of mathematical statistics).