Communicating Science: Professional, Popular, Literary

Lévyprocessesarerichmathematicalobjectsandconstituteperhapsthemostbasicclassofstochasticprocesseswithacontinuoustimeparameter.ThisbookisintendedtoprovidethereaderwithcomprehensivebasicknowledgeofLévyprocesses,andatthesametimeserveasanintroductiontostochasticprocessesingeneral.Nospecialistknowledgeisassumedandproofsaregivenindetail.Systematicstudyismadeofstableandsemi-stableprocesses,andtheauthorgivesspecialemphasistothecorrespondencebetweenLévyprocessesandinfinitelydivisibledistributions.Allseriousstudentsofrandomphenomenawillfindthatthisbookhasmuchtooffer.