First steps in random walks: from tools to applications
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Main Author: Klafter, Joseph 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011
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Item Description:The name ""random walk"" for a problem of a displacement of a point in a sequence of independent random steps was coined by Karl Pearson in 1905 in a question posed to readers of ""Nature"". The same year, a similar problem was formulated by Albert Einstein in one of his Annus Mirabilis works. Even earlier such a problem was posed by Louis Bachelier in his thesis devoted to the theory of financial speculations in 1900. Nowadays the theory of random walks has proved useful in physics andchemistry (diffusion, reactions, mixing in flows), economics, biology (from animal spread to motion of subcel
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (161 p.)
ISBN:019155295X
9780191552953

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