Elements of the Random Walk: An Introduction for Advanced Students and Researchers

by George Gaspari and Joseph Rudnick

Book Overview

Random walks have proven to be a useful model in understanding processes across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. Elements of the Random Walk is an introduction to some of the most powerful and general techniques used in the application of these ideas. The mathematical construct that runs through the analysis of the topics covered in this book, unifying the mathematical treatment, is the generating function. Although the reader is introduced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521535832
• ISBN13: 9780521535830
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"