{"product_id":"one-thousand-exercises-in-probability-third-edition-paperback","title":"One Thousand Exercises in Probability: Third Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Grimmett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Stirzaker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis third edition is a revised, updated, and greatly expanded version of previous edition of 2001. The 1300+ exercises contained within are not merely drill problems, but have been chosen to illustrate the concepts, illuminate the subject, and both inform and entertain the reader. A broad range of subjects is covered, including elementary aspects of probability and random variables, sampling, generating functions, Markov chains, convergence, stationary processes, renewals, queues, martingales, diffusions, Lévy processes, stability and self-similarity, time changes, and stochastic calculus including option pricing via the Black-Scholes model of mathematical finance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe text is intended to serve students as a companion for elementary, intermediate, and advanced courses in probability, random processes and operations research. It will also be useful for anyone needing a source for large numbers of problems and questions in these fields. In particular, this book acts as a companion to the authors' volume, Probability and Random Processes, fourth edition (OUP 2020).\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Geoffrey Grimmett, \u003cem\u003eDirector of Research and Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge\u003c\/em\u003e, David Stirzaker, \u003cem\u003eProfessor Emeritus, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeoffrey Grimmett is Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge has been his base for pursuing probability theory and the mathematics of disordered systems since 1992. He was Master of Downing College, Cambridge from 2013-2018 and has been appointed Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research from 2020 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe has written numerous research articles in probability theory and statistical mechanics, as well as three research books. With David Stirzaker and Dominic Welsh respectively, he has co-authored two successful textbooks on probability and random processes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Stirzaker was educated at Oxford University and Berkeley before being appointed as Fellow and Tutor in Applied Mathematics at St John's College, Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, and an Emeritus Professor at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe has written five textbooks on probability and random processes, two of them jointly with Geoffrey Grimmett. Most recently, (2015), he has written The Cambridge Dictionary of Probability and its Applications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.5 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729200844863,"sku":"9780198847618","price":110.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d1c3c2e72de6e453f33866abe697393f.webp?v=1765121335","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/one-thousand-exercises-in-probability-third-edition-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}