Theory of Probability and Random Processes (eBook)

YAKOV SINAI has been a professor at Princeton University since 1993. He was educated at Moscow State University, and was a professor there till 1993. Since 1971 he has also held the position of senior researcher at the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics. He is known for fundamental work on dynamical systems, probability theory, mathematical physics, and statistical mechanics. He has been awarded, among other honors, the Boltzmann Medal (in 1986) and Wolf Prize in Mathematics (in 1997). He is a member of Russian and American Academies of Sciences. LEONID KORALOV is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. From 2000 till 2006 he was an assistant professor at Princeton University, prior to which he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He did his undergraduate work at Moscow State University, and got his PhD from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1998. He works on problems in the areas of homogenization, diffusion processes, and partial differential equations.

Probability Theory.- Random Variables and Their Distributions.- Sequences of Independent Trials.- Lebesgue Integral and Mathematical Expectation.- Conditional Probabilities and Independence.- Markov Chains with a Finite Number of States.- Random Walks on the Lattice ?d.- Laws of Large Numbers.- Weak Convergence of Measures.- Characteristic Functions.- Limit Theorems.- Several Interesting Problems.- Random Processes.- Basic Concepts.- Conditional Expectations and Martingales.- Markov Processes with a Finite State Space.- Wide-Sense Stationary Random Processes.- Strictly Stationary Random Processes.- Generalized Random Processes.- Brownian Motion.- Markov Processes and Markov Families.- Stochastic Integral and the Ito Formula.- Stochastic Differential Equations.- Gibbs Random Fields.