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CHANCE AND CHOICE
Memorabilia
by Kai Lai Chung (Stanford University, USA)
This book begins with a historical essay entitled “Will the Sun Rise Again?” and ends with a general address entitled “Mathematics and Applications”. The articles cover an interesting range of topics: combinatoric probabilities, classical limit theorems, Markov chains and processes, potential theory, Brownian motion, Schrödinger–Feynman problems, etc. They include many addresses presented at international conferences and special seminars, as well as memorials to and reminiscences of prominent contemporary mathematicians and reviews of their works. Rare old photos of many of them enliven the book.
Contents:
- On Mutually Favorable Events
- On Fluctuations in Coin-Tossing
- On a
Stochastic Approximation Method
- On the Martin Boundary for Markov Chains
- A Cluster of Great Formulas
- Probabilistic Methods in Markov Chains
- Markov Processes with Infinities
- Probability Methods in Potential Theory
- Pólya’s Work in Probability
- Probability and Doob
- In Memory of Lévy and Fréchet
- and other papers
Readership: Graduate students, teachers and researchers in probability and
statistics.
“Chung's writing is literate, elegant, wise, humane. He takes the reader into his confidence, explaining ideas, motivation, and circumstances. There are frequent aperçus.”
“… an article about Mathematics and Applications, making the point that mathematics is primarily an art and should not be defended mainly by applications. The whole book is a testimonial for this view, showing the fun of the author with elegance, clarity and polished work.”
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Pub. date: Oct 2004 |
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