Rick Durrett
{{short description|American mathematician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2012}}
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| name = Richard Timothy Durrett
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| fields = Statistics
Mathematics
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| workplaces = UCLA
Cornell University
Duke University
| education = Emory University
Stanford University
| thesis_title = Conditioned Limit Theorems for Some Null Recurrent Markov Processes
| thesis_url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/2243256
| thesis_year = 1976
| doctoral_advisor = Donald Iglehart
| doctoral_students = Claudia Neuhauser
Rodrigo Bañuelos
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Richard Timothy Durrett is an American mathematician known for his research and
books on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and their
application to mathematical ecology and population genetics.
Education and career
He received his BS and MS at Emory University in 1972 and 1973 and his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1976 under advisor Donald
Iglehart. From 1976 to 1985 he taught at UCLA. From 1985 until 2010 was on the faculty at Cornell University, where his students included Claudia Neuhauser. Since 2010, Durrett has been a professor at Duke University.
He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007.{{cite web|title=Richard T. Durrett|website=National Academy of Sciences|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/2518086.html}} In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2012-11-10.
Durrett is the founder of the Cornell Probability Summer Schools.
Selected publications
=Books=
- Durrett, R. Probability. Theory and examples. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA (1991). 453 pp. {{ISBN|0-534-13206-5}} ; [https://books.google.com/books/about/Probability.html?id=evbGTPhuvSoC 4th edition, 2010]{{cite web|author=Rabinovitch, Peter|title=Review of Probability: Theory and Examples by Rick Durrett|website=MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America|date=12 January 2011|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/probability-theory-and-examples}}
- Durrett, R. Probability models for DNA sequence evolution. Springer-Verlag, New York (2002). 240 pp. {{ISBN|0-387-95435-X}} ; [https://books.google.com/books/about/Probability_Models_for_DNA_Sequence_Evol.html?id=o4_bMHy7jFoC 2nd edition, 2008]
- Durrett, R. [https://books.google.com/books/about/Stochastic_Calculus.html?id=_wzJCfphOUsC Stochastic Calculus: A Practical Introduction]. CRC Press (1996). 341 pp. {{ISBN|0-8493-8071-5}}
- Durrett, R. Random Graph Dynamics. Cambridge University Press (2006). 222 pp. {{ISBN|0-521-86656-1}}
=Papers=
- {{cite journal|last1=Durrett|first1=R.|title=Crabgrass, measles and gypsy moths: An introduction to modern probability|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|volume=18|issue=2|year=1988|pages=117–144|issn=0273-0979|doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15625-X|doi-access=free|url=https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-mathematical-society-new-series/volume-18/issue-2/Crabgrass-measles-and-gypsy-moths--An-introduction-to-modern/bams/1183554527.pdf}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Durrett|first1=R.|last2=Levin|first2=S.|authorlink2=Simon A. Levin|title=The Importance of Being Discrete (and Spatial)|journal=Theoretical Population Biology|volume=46|issue=3|year=1994|pages=363–394|issn=0040-5809|doi=10.1006/tpbi.1994.1032|doi-access=free|bibcode=1994TPBio..46..363D }} (This article has over 1100 citations.)
References
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External links
- [http://www.math.duke.edu/~rtd/ Personal Home Page at Duke University].
- [http://www.math.cornell.edu/~cpss Cornell Probability Summer Schools].
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