Richard Timothy Durrett is an American 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, where his students included Claudia Neuhauser.
He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
[2] Durrett is the founder of the Cornell Probability Summer Schools.