Alma mater Princeton University Died November 3, 2006 Role Mathematician | Name Ted Harris Known for Harris chain Doctoral advisor Samuel S. Wilks | |
Born January 11, 1919 ( 1919-01-11 ) Institutions RAND Corporation
University of Southern California Thesis Some Theorems on the Bernoullian Multiplicative Process (1947) Education Princeton University (1947) Books The Theory of Branching Processes | ||
Theodore Edward "Ted" Harris (11 January 1919 – 3 November 2005) was an American mathematician known for his research on stochastic processes, including such areas as general state-space Markov chains (often now called Harris 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.
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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.