"What underlying forces are responsible for the observed patterns of variability, given a collection of DNA sequences?" In approaching this question a number of probability models are introduced and anyalyzed.Throughout the book, the theory is developed in close connection with data from more than 60 experimental studies that illustrate the use of these results.
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 BS and MS at Emory University in 1972 and 1973 and his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1976 under advisor Donald Iglehart. From 1985 until 2010 was on the faculty at Cornell University. Since 2010, Durrett has been a professor at Duke University.
He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[1]
Durrett is the founder of the Cornell Probability Summer Schools, and he is still its scientific organizer.