This is an excellent user's guide to stochastic calculus and its important applications. I say excellent because it is well-written (clear and easy to read with a focus on the essentials as previous review said). I say "user's guide" because the author's get down to the nut's and bolt's of stochas
Stochastic Tools in Mathematics and Science
โ Scribed by Alexandre J. Chorin, Ole H Hald (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 208
- Series
- Texts in Applied Mathematics 58
- Edition
- 3
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Stochastic Tools in Mathematics and Science" covers basic stochastic tools used in physics, chemistry, engineering and the life sciences. The topics covered include conditional expectations, stochastic processes, Brownian motion and its relation to partial differential equations, Langevin equations, the Liouville and Fokker-Planck equations, as well as Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, renormalization, basic statistical mechanics, and generalized Langevin equations and the Mori-Zwanzig formalism. The applications include sampling algorithms, data assimilation, prediction from partial data, spectral analysis, and turbulence. The book is based on lecture notes from a class that has attracted graduate and advanced undergraduate students from mathematics and from many other science departments at the University of California, Berkeley. Each chapter is followed by exercises. The book will be useful for scientists and engineers working in a wide range of fields and applications. For this new edition the material has been thoroughly reorganized and updated, and new sections on scaling, sampling, filtering and data assimilation, based on recent research, have been added. There are additional figures and exercises. Review of earlier edition: "This is an excellent concise textbook which can be used for self-study by graduate and advanced undergraduate students and as a recommended textbook for an introductory course on probabilistic tools in science." Mathematical Reviews, 2006
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Preliminaries....Pages 1-23
Introduction to Probability....Pages 25-45
Computing with Probability....Pages 47-62
Brownian Motion with Applications....Pages 63-88
Time-Varying Probabilities....Pages 89-107
Stationary Stochastic Processes....Pages 109-132
Statistical Mechanics....Pages 133-155
Computational Statistical Mechanics....Pages 157-170
Generalized Langevin Equations....Pages 171-198
Erratum to: Chapter 9 Generalized Langevin Equations....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 199-200
โฆ Subjects
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Classical Continuum Physics;Applications of Mathematics;Engineering Fluid Dynamics
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