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Presents areas of current research in modern probability that are accessible to undergraduate studen...
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Presents areas of current research in modern probability that are accessible to undergraduate students, based on lectures and computer labs held at the Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute. Contains chapters on random walks, Brownian motion, card shuffling, spanning trees, and Markov chain Monte Carlo. There are computer simulations for random walks, Markov chains, and stochastic differential equations as applied to finance. Includes problems. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) studies on controversial issues. The authors are affiliated with Info Tech, Inc., and the University of South Florida. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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