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Mathematics · Probability Theory

Random Walks

A topic within Probability Theory, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Mathematics.

Reading on Random Walks

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2 works

Book1984

Random Walks and Electric Networks

Peter G. Doyle & J. Laurie Snell

Shows that the trajectory of a random walk on a graph and the flow of current through the same graph as a resistor network are the same mathematics seen twice, using each to build intuition for the other.

link checked 17 Sept 2026
Book2010

Random Walk: A Modern Introduction

Gregory F. Lawler & Vlada Limic

Treats the simple random walk on the integer lattice as a single object whose qualitative behaviour changes with dimension, and builds the modern potential-theoretic toolkit around that one example.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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