Author | : Barry D. Hughes |
File Size | : 41,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 02 May 1995 |
ISBN | : 9780198537885 |
Pages | : 658 pages |
Random Walks and Random Environments Random walks by Barry D. Hughes Book PDF Summary
This is the first volume of a two-volume work devoted to probability theory in physics, physical chemistry and engineering. This volume provides an introduction to the problem of "random walk" and its applications. In its simplest form, the random walk describes the motion of an idealizeddrunkard and is a discrete analogue of the diffusion through a medium with traps, laser speckle and the conformations of polymers in dilute solution. Prior knowledge of probability theory is helpful, but not assumed.