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This book grew from a one-semester course offered for many years to a mixed audience of graduate and undergraduate students who have not had the luxury of taking a course in measure theory. The core of the book covers the basic topics of independendence, conditioning, martingales , convergence in distribution, and Fourier transforms. In addition the re are numerous sections treating topics traditionally thought of as m ore advanced, such as coupling and the KMT strong approximation, optio n pricing via the equivalent martingale measure, and the isoperimetric inequality for Gaussian processes. The book is not just a presentatio n of mathematical theory, but is also a discussion of why that theory takes its current form. It will be a secure starting point for anyone who needs to invoke rigorous probabilistic arguments and understand wh at they mean.
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"Unlike technical books of a previous generation, here we have an author admitting that a reader might find the subject difficult and even offering a window on the pedagogical considerations by which he shapes his exposition. Pollard does not just explain and clarify abstractions; he really sells them to a presumably skeptical reader. Thus he bridges a gap in the literature, between elementary probability texts and advanced works that presume a secure prior knowledge of measure theory...The nice layout and occasional useful diagram further amplify the friendliness of this book." Choice"The book ... can be recommended as an excellent source in measuring theoretic probability theory as well as a handbook for everybody who studies stochastic processes in the real world." Mathematical Reviews
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