Random Processes with Independent Increments

by A.V. Skorokhod

One SCI\'ice mathematics bas rendered the 'Et moi, .... si j'avait su comment en revcnir. je n'y serais point human race. It bas put common back where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next Jules Verne to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded n- sense'. The series is divergent; therefore we may be able to do something with it. Eric T. Bell O. Hcavisidc Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non­ linearities abound. Similarly. all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics .. :; 'One service logic has rendered com­ puter science .. :; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. :. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'etre of this series.

290 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 1991