First steps in random walks : from tools to applications /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Klafter, J. (Joseph)
Other Authors:	Sokolov, Igor M., 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Random walks (Mathematics) SCIENCE / Physics. MATHEMATICS / Applied. MATHEMATICS / Discrete Mathematics.