Probability Theory

Essentials of Stochastic Processes

Name: Essentials of Stochastic Processes
Author: Durrett, Richard
ISBN: 9781441931719

by Durrett, Richard

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Overview

This book is for a first course on stochastic processes to be taken by undergraduates or masters students who have had a course in probability theory, but who have not had a course in measure theory. It covers Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal theory, and Brownian motion and martingales. The last two topics are important for the brief treatment of option pricing.. "The book presents only the essentials of the subject, the parts of the theory most important for applications. To allow readers to choose their own level of detail, many of the proofs begin with a nonrigorous answer to the question "Why is this true?" followed by a proof that fills in the missing details.

About the Author, Durrett, Richard

Richard Durrett received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1976. He taught at the UCLA math department for nine years and at Cornell for twenty-five before moving to Duke in 2010. He is the author of 8 books and almost 200 journal articles, and has supervised more that 40 Ph.D. students. Most of his current research concerns the applications of probability to biology: ecology, genetics, and most recently cancer.