Probability Models for DNA Sequence Evolution

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Summary: complicated genetics explained through probability
Review: Rick Durrett was a graduate student in operations research at Stanford. Rick was Iglehart's prize student and was even then predicted to surpass Iglehart in his achievements.

Rick has been an academic his entire career and has made major contributions in applied probability. He also explains things in very intuitive ways and has thus been able to publish a number of successful books on various aspects of probability theory and stochastic processes. In this book Rick presents a variety of probability models to explain the evolution of DNA sequences that are found in humans. This represents an interesting and important area of research that has tremendous impact on medical treatments, pharmaceuticals and genetic engineering. Most of all it has the rigorous touch that Rick always gives to his work.