Awards Rollo Davidson Prize of Cambridge University (1988) Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute (1996) Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2000) Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2010) Books Székely, G. J. (1986) Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Reidel. Ruzsa, I. Z. and Székely, G. J. (1988) Algebraic Probability Theory, Wiley. Székely, G. J. (editor) (1995) Contests in Higher Mathematics, Springer. Székely, G.J.(2000) Statistics For The 21st Century: Methodologies For Applications Of The Future (Statistics, Textbooks And Monographs), New York, Marcel Dekker. Guoyan Zheng, Shuo Li, Székely, G. J.(2017)Statistical Shape and Deformation Analysis, 1st Edition, Academic Press. Selected works Székely, G. J. (1981–82) Why is 7 a mystical number? (in Hungarian) in: MIOK Évkönyv, 482-487, ed. Sándor Scheiber. Székely, G.J. and Ruzsa, I.Z. (1982) Intersections of traces of random walks with fixed sets, Annals of Probability 10, 132-136. Székely, G. J. and Ruzsa, I.Z. (1985) No distribution is prime, Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw. Geb. 70, 263-269. Székely, G. J. and Buczolich, Z. (1989) When is a weighted average of ordered sample elements a maximum likelihood estimator of the location parameter? Advances in Applied Mathematics 10, 439-456. Székely, G. J, Bennett, C.D., and Glass, A. M. W. (2004) Fermat's last theorem for rational exponents, The American Mathematical Monthly 11/4, 322-329. Székely, G. J. (2006) Student's t-test for scale mixtures. Lecture Notes Monograph Series 49, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 10-18. Székely, G. J., Rizzo, M. L. and Bakirov, N. K. (2007) Measuring and testing independence by correlation of distances, The Annals of Statistics, 35, 2769-2794. Székely, G. J. and Rizzo, M.L. (2009) Brownian distance covariance, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 3/4, 1233-1308. Rizzo, M. L. and Székely, G. J. (2010) DISCO analysis: A nonparametric extension of analysis of variance, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 4/2, 1034-1055. Székely, G.J. and Rizzo, M.L. (2013) Energy statistics: statistics based on distances, Invited paper, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 143/8, 1249-1272. Székely, G.J. and Rizzo, M.L. (2014) Partial distance correlation with methods for dissimilarities, The Annals of Statistics, 42/6, 2382-2412. References External links Székely's website. 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians 21st-century Hungarian mathematicians Hungarian statisticians American mathematicians American statisticians Probability theorists Hungarian emigrants to the United States Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Living people 1947 births