First steps in random walks : from tools to applications / J. Klafter and I.M. Sokolov.

"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 ear...

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Main Author: Klafter, J. (Joseph)
Other Authors: Sokolov, Igor M., 1958-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Physical Description:vi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book

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