Lectures from Markov Processes to Brownian Motion

This book evolved from several stacks of lecture notes written over a decade and given in classes at slightly varying levels. In transforming the over­ lapping material into a book, I aimed at presenting some of the best features of the subject with a minimum of prerequisities and technicalities. (Needless to say, one man''s technicality is another''s professionalism. ) But a text frozen in print ...