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Lectures on Contemporary Probability

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Gregory F. Lawler, Duke University, Durham, NC and Lester N. Coyle, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

Publication: The Student Mathematical Library
Publication Year 1999: Volume 2
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2029-2 (print); 978-1-4704-2123-6 (online)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/stml/002
MathSciNet review: MR1707283
MSC: Primary 60-01

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Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Chapters

• Chapter 1. Simple random walk and Stirling’s formula
• Chapter 2. Simple random walk in many dimensions
• Chapter 3. Self-avoiding walk
• Chapter 4. Brownian motion
• Chapter 5. Shuffling and random permutations
• Chapter 6. Seven shuffles are enough (sort of)
• Chapter 7. Markov chains on finite sets
• Chapter 8. Markov chain Monte Carlo
• Chapter 9. Random walks and electrical networks
• Chapter 10. Uniform spanning trees
• Chapter 11. Random walk simulations
• Chapter 12. Other simulations
• Chapter 13. Simulations in finance
• Problems

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