Ted Harris (mathematician)
- Ted Harris (mathematician)
Ted Harris (11 January 1919 – 3 November 2006) was an
American mathematician known for his research on stochastic processes, including such areas as general state-space Markov chains (oftennow called Harris chains), the theory of branchingprocesses and stochastic models of interacting particle systems such as the
contact process.
He received his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1947 under advisor SamuelWilks. From 1947 until 1966 he worked for the Randcorporation, heading their mathematics department from 1959 to 1965. From 1966until retirement in 1989 he was Professor of Mathematics and Electrical Engineeringat University of Southern California.
He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1988.
Selected publications
Books
* Harris, Theodore E. "The theory of branching processes". Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (1963) 230 pp.
Papers
* Harris, T. E. "Contact interactions on a lattice". Annals Probability 2 (1974) pp. 969-988.
References
# [http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.ss/1038425658 A Conversation with Ted Harris]
# [http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/college_magazine/spring_2006/obituaries.html U.S.C. obituary]
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