Professor Michel Loève (with gratitude) I won numerous area and California math competitions through high school and also had advanced calculus before college. I went to UC Berkeley into the honors math-physics program. The lessons that affected me most profoundly in the honors math program had nothing to do with math or physics. My undergraduate years 1966 - 1970 had student strikes every quarter. My honors-math professor was Michel Loève, a Palestinian Jew who was interned by the Nazis. He believed in academic freedom and freedom of expression. He supported a student strike against a National Guard presence on the UC Berkeley campus my freshman year. Prof. Loève explained why as he told us of his experiences in Nazi occupied France. He did not talk of his internment experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. What Prof. Loève said struck a deep chord in me, given my family background in the Chinese Civil War, and much later my own experiences as a student participant in the United States in the civil rights and anti-war movements. Prof. Loève also taught probability theory and statistics. When I graduated from Berkeley and after basic training at Fort Ord, I became a statistician in a computer company in Silicon Valley for about a year before going on to law school. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lo%C3%A8ve (One of my practices is to honor those who influenced my life into positive directions. Prof. Loève is one. When I tried to locate him to thank him, I discovered that he had died decades earlier.)
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