Rick Durrett
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Richard Timothy Durrett is a mathematician known for his research and books on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and their application to mathematical ecology and population genetics.
He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1976 under advisor Donald Iglehart, and since 1985 has been on the faculty at Cornell University.
He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
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[edit] Selected publications
[edit] Books
- Durrett, R. "Probability. Theory and examples". Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA (1991). 453 pp. ISBN: 0-534-13206-5
- Durrett, R. "Probability models for DNA sequence evolution". Springer-Verlag, New York (2002). 240 pp. ISBN: 0-387-95435-X
[edit] Papers
- Durrett, R. and Levin, S. "The importance of being discrete (and spatial)". Theoretical Population Biology 46 (1994) pp. 363-394.
