Rick DurrettRick Durrett is James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1976. After nine years at the University of California, Los Angeles and twenty-five at Cornel University, he moved to Duke University in 2010, where he worked until he retired in 2023. Durrett is the author of eight books and more than 240 journal articles on a wide variety of topics in probability theory and its applications to ecology, genetics, cancer, and epidemiology. He has supervised fifty-one Ph.D. students. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2007. Read More Read Less