本书是《概率论》的英文版，反映了过去半个多世纪概率论与随机过程的巨大发展，主要内容包括大数定律、中心极限定理、随机游动、鞅论、马氏链、遍历定理、布朗运动等。可作为概率统计专业一年级研究生《高等概率论》和《随机过程论》的教材。

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Introductory Lecture

1 Laws of Large Numbers

 1. Basic Definitions

 2. Random Variables

 3. Expected Value

a. Inequalities

b. Integration to the limit

c. Computing expected values

 4. Independence

a. Sufficient conditions for independence

b. Independence, distribution, and expectation

c. Constructing independent random variables

 5. Weak Laws of Large Numbers

a. L2 weak laws

b. Triangular arrays

c. Truncation

 6. Borel-Cantelli Lemmas

 7. Strong Law of Large Numbers

 8. Convergence of Random Series

 9. Large Deviations

2 Central Limit Theorems

 1. The De Moivre-Laplace Theorem

 2. Weak Convergence

a. Examples

b. Theory

 3. Characteristic Functions

a. Definition, inversion formula

b. Weak convergence

c. Moments and derivatives

d. Polya's criterion

e. The moment problem

 4. Central Limit Theorems

a. i.i.d, sequences

b. Triangular arrays

c. Prime divisors (Erd0s-Kac)

d. Rates of convergence (Berry-Esseen)

 5. Local Limit Theorems

 6. Poisson Convergence

a. Basic limit theorem

b. Two examples with dependence

c. Poisson processes

 7. Stable Laws

 8. Infinitely Divisible Distributions

 9. Limit theorems in ad

3 Random Walks

 1. Stopping Times

 2. Recurrence

 3. Visits to 0, Arcsine Laws

 4. Renewal Theory

4 Martingales

 1. Conditional Expectation

a. Examples

b. Properties

c. Regular conditional probabilities

 2. Martingales, Almost Sure Convergence

 3. Examples 236

a. Bounded increments

b. Polya's urn scheme

c. Radon-Nikodym derivatives

d. Branching processes

 4. Doob's Inequality, Lp Convergence Square integrable martingales

 5. Uniform Integrability, Convergence in L1

 6. Backwards Martingales

 7. Optional Stopping Theorems

Markov Chains

Ergodic Theorems

Brownian Motion

Appendix:Measure Theory

References

Notation

Normal Table

Index