Probability-2

Albert N. Shiryaev is Chief Scientific Researcher and Professor of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Head of the Department of Probability Theory in the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is the recipient of the A.N. Kolmogorov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1994 and the A.A. Markov Prize in 1974. His numerous other titles include Problems in Probability, translated by A. Lyasoff, which offers more than 1500 exercises and problems as a supplement to Probability.Translator Dmitry M. Chibisov is Leading Scientific Researcher and Professor of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics at the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematical Methods of Statistics and is the translator of over 6 volumes from Russian to English.

• Preface.- Chapter 4: Sequences and Sums of Independent Random Variables.- Chapter 5: Stationary (Strict Sense) Random Sequences and Ergodic Theory.- Chapter 6: Stationary (Wide Sense) Random Sequences: L2-Theory.- Chapter 7: Martingales.- Chapter 8: Markov Chains.- Historical of Bibliographical Notes (Chapters 4-8).- References.- Index.- Index of Symbols.

About the First English Edition: It is clear that this book contains important and interesting results obtained through a long time period, beginning with the classical Bernoulli's law of large numbers, and ending with very recent results concerning convergence of martingales and absolute continuity of probability measures. Let us note especially that the great number of ideas, notions and statements in the book are well-motivated, explained in detail and illustrated by suitably chosen examples and a large number of exercises. Thus, the present book is a synthesis of all significant classical ideas and results, and many of the major achievements of modern probability theory. In the whole it is a welcome addition to mathematical literature and can become an indispensable textbook for courses in stochastics. - J. Stoyanov, Zentralblatt