Richard Durrett

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Richard Timothy Durrett , also Rick Durrett, (born August 17, 1951 in Anniston , Alabama ) is an American mathematician who studies stochastics.

Durrett received his PhD from Stanford University in 1976 with Donald Iglehart ( Conditioned Limit Theorems for Some Null Recurrenent Markov Processes ). He was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and later at Cornell University and Duke University . In 1981 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ).

Among other things, he deals with applications of stochastics in biology, first with Simon Levin in the late 1980s in the field of biology, then also in molecular biology (evolutionary dynamics of DNA sequences with Chip Aquadro, etc.), and also with random graphs and networks.

He was invited speaker at the International Mathematicians Congress 1990 in Kyoto ( Stochastic models of growth and competition ). In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 to the National Academy of Sciences . He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • Brownian Motion and Martingales in Analysis , Brooks / Cole 1984
  • Lecture Notes on Particle Systems and Percolation , Brooks / Cole 1988
  • Probability: Theory and Examples , Cambridge University Press 2010
  • Random Graph Dynamics , Cambridge University Press 2010
  • Elementary Probability for Applications , Cambridge University Press 2009
  • Probability models for DNA sequence evolution , 2nd edition, Springer Verlag 2008
  • The Essentials of Probability , Duxberry Press 1994
  • Essentials of Stochastic Processes , Springer Verlag, 2001, 2nd edition 2012
  • Stochastic Calculus: a practical introduction , CRC Press 1996
  • Mutual Invadability Implies Coexistence in Spatial Models , Memoirs AMS 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Durrett in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Durrett, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Durrett, Rick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Anniston, Alabama