Ted Harris

Mathematician, Deceased Person

1919 – 2006

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Who was Ted Harris?

Theodore Edward "Ted" Harris was an American mathematician known for his research on stochastic processes, including such areas as general state-space Markov chains, the theory of branching processes and stochastic models of interacting particle systems such as the contact process. The Harris inequality in statistical physics and percolation theory is named after him.

He received his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1947 under advisor Samuel Wilks. From 1947 until 1966 he worked for the RAND Corporation, heading their mathematics department from 1959 to 1965. From 1966 until retirement in 1989 he was Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California.

He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

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Born
Jan 11, 1919
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Doctorate, Princeton University
    ( - 1947)
Died
Nov 3, 2006

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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