Rick Durrett

Richard Timothy Durrett, Rick Durrett also, (* 1951) is an American mathematician who deals with stochastics.

Durrett received his doctorate at Stanford University under Donald Iglehart 1976. ( Conditioned limit theorem for Some zero Recurrenent Markov Processes). He was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) and later at Cornell University.

It deals with, among other things, applications of stochastics in biology, first with Simon Levin in the late 1980s in the field of biology, then 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 Congress of Mathematicians in 1990 in Kyoto ( Stochastic models of growth and competition).

Writings

  • 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
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