- Description
Description
Author: Richard Durrett
Publisher: Springer
Published: 11/17/2016
Pages: 275
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9783319456133
ISBN10: 331945613X
BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | Probability & Statistics | General
- Business & Economics | Operations Research
- Business & Economics | Statistics
About the Author
Richard Durrett received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1976. He taught at the UCLA mathematics department for 9 years and at Cornell for 25 years before moving to Duke in 2010. He is author of 8 books and more than 200 journal articles and has supervised more that 45 Ph.D. students. He is a member of the National Academy of Science. Most of his current research concerns the applications of probability to biology: ecology, genetics, and most recently cancer.