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Knowing the Odds: An Introduction to Probability
About this Title
John B. Walsh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Publication: Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Publication Year:
2012; Volume 139
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-8532-1 (print); 978-0-8218-9031-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/139
MathSciNet review: MR2954044
MSC: Primary 60-01; Secondary 60Fxx, 60Gxx, 60Hxx, 60Jxx
Table of Contents
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Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. Probability spaces
- Chapter 2. Random variables
- Chapter 3. Expectations II: The general case
- Chapter 4. Convergence
- Chapter 5. Laws of large numbers
- Chapter 6. Convergence in distribution and the CLT
- Chapter 7. Markov chains and random walks
- Chapter 8. Conditional expectations
- Chapter 9. Discrete-parameter martingales
- Chapter 10. Brownian motion