Thomas Milton Liggett (March 29, 1944 – May 12, 2020) was a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[1] Liggett moved at the age of two with his missionary parents to Latin America, where he was educated in Bueno Aires, Argentina and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
He graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1965, where he was influenced towards probability by Samuel Goldberg (b.
He moved to Stanford, taking classes with Kai Lai Chung, and writing his thesis, Weak Convergence of Conditioned Sums of Independent Random Vectors, in 1969 with advisor Samuel Karlin on problems associated with the invariance principle.
He was the Wald Memorial Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1996, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.