# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-lacey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:18.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-lacey"
name: "Michael Lacey"
slug: "michael-lacey"
description: "Michael Thoreau Lacey is an American mathematician. Lacey received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, under the direction of Walter Philipp. His thesis was in the area of probability in Banach spaces, and solved a problem related to the law of the iterated logarithm for empirical characteristic functions. In the intervening years, his work has touched on the areas of probability, ergodic theory, and harmonic analysis."
tagline: "American mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             6
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Michael Lacey (mathematician)"
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    title: "ميخائيل لاسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_T._Lacey"
    title: "Michael T. Lacey"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lacey"
    title: "Michael Lacey"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lacey"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lacey"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1551977"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump