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另一种方法是定义一组具有特定有限维分布的随机变量，然后用 Kolmogorov 的存在性定理证明相应的随机过程存在。他说，如果任何有限维分布满足两个条件，也就是所谓的一致性条件，那么就存在这些有限维分布的随机过程。这意味着随机过程的分布并不一定唯一地指定随机过程的样本函数的属性。

另一种方法是定义一组具有特定有限维分布的随机变量，然后用 Kolmogorov 的存在性定理证明相应的随机过程存在。他说，如果任何有限维分布满足两个条件，也就是所谓的一致性条件，那么就存在这些有限维分布的随机过程。这意味着随机过程的分布并不一定唯一地指定随机过程的样本函数的属性。

==Further examples==

==Further examples更多示例==

另一个问题是，连续时间过程的泛函依赖于指数集中无法计算的点数，因此某些事件的概率可能无法很好地定义。可分性保证了无穷维分布决定样本函数的性质，它要求样本函数本质上是由指数集中的稠密可数点集上的值决定的。此外，如果随机过程是可分的，那么指数集上不可数个点的泛函是可测的，并且可以研究它们的概率。对于任意度量空间作为状态空间的连续时间随机过程。为了构造这样一个随机过程，我们假设随机过程的样本函数属于某个适当的函数空间，这个空间通常是由所有右连续函数和左极限组成的 Skorokhod 空间。这种方法现在比可分离性假设更常用，但是基于这种方法的随机过程可自动分离。

另一个问题是，连续时间过程的泛函依赖于指数集中无法计算的点数，因此某些事件的概率可能无法很好地定义。可分性保证了无穷维分布决定样本函数的性质，它要求样本函数本质上是由指数集中的稠密可数点集上的值决定的。此外，如果随机过程是可分的，那么指数集上不可数个点的泛函是可测的，并且可以研究它们的概率。对于任意度量空间作为状态空间的连续时间随机过程。为了构造这样一个随机过程，我们假设随机过程的样本函数属于某个适当的函数空间，这个空间通常是由所有右连续函数和左极限组成的 Skorokhod 空间。这种方法现在比可分离性假设更常用，但是基于这种方法的随机过程可自动分离。

===Markov processes and chains===

===Markov processes and chains马尔可夫过程与链===

{{Main|Markov process}}

{{Main|Markov process}}

 

Although less used, the separability assumption is considered more general because every stochastic process has a separable version. For example, separability is assumed when constructing and studying random fields, where the collection of random variables is now indexed by sets other than the real line such as <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space.

Although less used, the separability assumption is considered more general because every stochastic process has a separable version. For example, separability is assumed when constructing and studying random fields, where the collection of random variables is now indexed by sets other than the real line such as <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space.

Markov processes are stochastic processes, traditionally in [[Discrete time and continuous time|discrete or continuous time]], that have the Markov property, which means the next value of the Markov process depends on the current value, but it is conditionally independent of the previous values of the stochastic process. In other words, the behavior of the process in the future is stochastically independent of its behavior in the past, given the current state of the process.<ref name="Serfozo2009page2">{{cite book|author=Richard Serfozo|title=Basics of Applied Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBBRiuxTN0QC|year=2009|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-89332-5|page=2}}</ref><ref name="Rozanov2012page58">{{cite book|author=Y.A. Rozanov|title=Markov Random Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGUECAAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4613-8190-7|page=58}}</ref>

Markov processes are stochastic processes, traditionally in [[Discrete time and continuous time|discrete or continuous time]], that have the Markov property, which means the next value of the Markov process depends on the current value, but it is conditionally independent of the previous values of the stochastic process. In other words, the behavior of the process in the future is stochastically independent of its behavior in the past, given the current state of the process.<ref name="Serfozo2009page2">{{cite book|author=Richard Serfozo|title=Basics of Applied Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBBRiuxTN0QC|year=2009|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-89332-5|page=2}}</ref><ref name="Rozanov2012page58">{{cite book|author=Y.A. Rozanov|title=Markov Random Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGUECAAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4613-8190-7|page=58}}</ref>

The Brownian motion process and the Poisson process (in one dimension) are both examples of Markov processes<ref name="Ross1996page235and358">{{cite book|author=Sheldon M. Ross|title=Stochastic processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImUPAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-12062-9|pages=235, 358}}</ref> in continuous time, while [[random walk]]s on the integers and the [[gambler's ruin]] problem are examples of Markov processes in discrete time.<ref name="Florescu2014page373">{{cite book|author=Ionut Florescu|title=Probability and Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5xEBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR22|year=2014|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-59320-2|pages=373, 374}}</ref><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page49">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|page=49}}</ref>

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A Markov chain is a type of Markov process that has either discrete [[state space]] or discrete index set (often representing time), but the precise definition of a Markov chain varies.<ref name="Asmussen2003page7">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeYaTxesKy0C|title=Applied Probability and Queues|year=2003|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-00211-8|page=7|author=Søren Asmussen}}</ref> For example, it is common to define a Markov chain as a Markov process in either [[Continuous and discrete variables|discrete or continuous time]] with a countable state space (thus regardless of the nature of time),<ref name="Parzen1999page188">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0mB2CQAAQBAJ|title=Stochastic Processes|year=2015|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-79688-8|page=188|author=Emanuel Parzen}}</ref><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page29">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|pages=29, 30|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor}}</ref><ref name="Lamperti1977chap6">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pd4cvgAACAAJ|title=Stochastic processes: a survey of the mathematical theory|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1977|isbn=978-3-540-90275-1|pages=106–121|author=John Lamperti}}</ref><ref name="Ross1996page174and231">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImUPAQAAMAAJ|title=Stochastic processes|publisher=Wiley|year=1996|isbn=978-0-471-12062-9|pages=174, 231|author=Sheldon M. Ross}}</ref> but it has been also common to define a Markov chain as having discrete time in either countable or continuous state space (thus regardless of the state space).<ref name="Asmussen2003page7" /> It has been argued that the first definition of a Markov chain, where it has discrete time, now tends to be used, despite the second definition having been used by researchers like [[Joseph Doob]] and [[Kai Lai Chung]].<ref name="MeynTweedie2009">{{cite book|author1=Sean Meyn|author2=Richard L. Tweedie|title=Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Md7RnYEPkJwC|year=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-73182-9|page=19}}</ref>

A Markov chain is a type of Markov process that has either discrete [[state space]] or discrete index set (often representing time), but the precise definition of a Markov chain varies.<ref name="Asmussen2003page7">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BeYaTxesKy0C|title=Applied Probability and Queues|year=2003|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-00211-8|page=7|author=Søren Asmussen}}</ref> For example, it is common to define a Markov chain as a Markov process in either [[Continuous and discrete variables|discrete or continuous time]] with a countable state space (thus regardless of the nature of time),<ref name="Parzen1999page188">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0mB2CQAAQBAJ|title=Stochastic Processes|year=2015|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-79688-8|page=188|author=Emanuel Parzen}}</ref><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page29">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|pages=29, 30|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor}}</ref><ref name="Lamperti1977chap6">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pd4cvgAACAAJ|title=Stochastic processes: a survey of the mathematical theory|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=1977|isbn=978-3-540-90275-1|pages=106–121|author=John Lamperti}}</ref><ref name="Ross1996page174and231">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImUPAQAAMAAJ|title=Stochastic processes|publisher=Wiley|year=1996|isbn=978-0-471-12062-9|pages=174, 231|author=Sheldon M. Ross}}</ref> but it has been also common to define a Markov chain as having discrete time in either countable or continuous state space (thus regardless of the state space).<ref name="Asmussen2003page7" /> It has been argued that the first definition of a Markov chain, where it has discrete time, now tends to be used, despite the second definition having been used by researchers like [[Joseph Doob]] and [[Kai Lai Chung]].<ref name="MeynTweedie2009">{{cite book|author1=Sean Meyn|author2=Richard L. Tweedie|title=Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Md7RnYEPkJwC|year=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-73182-9|page=19}}</ref>

Markov processes form an important class of stochastic processes and have applications in many areas.<ref name="LatoucheRamaswami1999"/><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page47">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|page=47}}</ref> For example, they are the basis for a general stochastic simulation method known as [[Markov chain Monte Carlo]], which is used for simulating random objects with specific probability distributions, and has found application in [[Bayesian statistics]].<ref name="RubinsteinKroese2011page225">{{cite book|author1=Reuven Y. Rubinstein|author2=Dirk P. Kroese|title=Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWcvT80gQK4C|year=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-21052-9|page=225}}</ref><ref name="GamermanLopes2006">{{cite book|author1=Dani Gamerman|author2=Hedibert F. Lopes|title=Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Stochastic Simulation for Bayesian Inference, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yPvECi_L3bwC|year=2006|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-58488-587-0}}</ref>

Markov processes form an important class of stochastic processes and have applications in many areas.<ref name="LatoucheRamaswami1999"/><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page47">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|page=47}}</ref> For example, they are the basis for a general stochastic simulation method known as [[Markov chain Monte Carlo]], which is used for simulating random objects with specific probability distributions, and has found application in [[Bayesian statistics]].<ref name="RubinsteinKroese2011page225">{{cite book|author1=Reuven Y. Rubinstein|author2=Dirk P. Kroese|title=Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWcvT80gQK4C|year=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-21052-9|page=225}}</ref><ref name="GamermanLopes2006">{{cite book|author1=Dani Gamerman|author2=Hedibert F. Lopes|title=Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Stochastic Simulation for Bayesian Inference, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yPvECi_L3bwC|year=2006|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-58488-587-0}}</ref>

 

The concept of the Markov property was originally for stochastic processes in continuous and discrete time, but the property has been adapted for other index sets such as <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space, which results in collections of random variables known as Markov random fields.<ref name="Rozanov2012page61">{{cite book|author=Y.A. Rozanov|title=Markov Random Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGUECAAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4613-8190-7|page=61}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Donald L. Snyder|author2=Michael I. Miller|title=Random Point Processes in Time and Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_3UBwAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4612-3166-0|page=27}}</ref><ref name="Bremaud2013page253">{{cite book|author=Pierre Bremaud|title=Markov Chains: Gibbs Fields, Monte Carlo Simulation, and Queues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrPVBwAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4757-3124-8|page=253}}</ref>

The concept of the Markov property was originally for stochastic processes in continuous and discrete time, but the property has been adapted for other index sets such as <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space, which results in collections of random variables known as Markov random fields.<ref name="Rozanov2012page61">{{cite book|author=Y.A. Rozanov|title=Markov Random Fields|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGUECAAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4613-8190-7|page=61}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Donald L. Snyder|author2=Michael I. Miller|title=Random Point Processes in Time and Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_3UBwAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4612-3166-0|page=27}}</ref><ref name="Bremaud2013page253">{{cite book|author=Pierre Bremaud|title=Markov Chains: Gibbs Fields, Monte Carlo Simulation, and Queues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrPVBwAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4757-3124-8|page=253}}</ref>

 

===Martingale鞅===

===Martingale===

{{Main|Martingale (probability theory)}}

{{Main|Martingale (probability theory)}}

A martingale is a discrete-time or continuous-time stochastic process with the property that, at every instant, given the current value and all the past values of the process, the conditional expectation of every future value is equal to the current value. In discrete time, if this property holds for the next value, then it holds for all future values. The exact mathematical definition of a martingale requires two other conditions coupled with the mathematical concept of a filtration, which is related to the intuition of increasing available information as time passes. Martingales are usually defined to be real-valued,<ref name="Klebaner2005page65">{{cite book|author=Fima C. Klebaner|title=Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYzW0uqQxB0C|year=2005|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=978-1-86094-555-7|page=65}}</ref><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page11">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2|page=11}}</ref><ref name="Williams1991page93">{{cite book|author=David Williams|title=Probability with Martingales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9saZ0YSi-AC|year=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-40605-5|pages=93, 94}}</ref> but they can also be complex-valued<ref name="Doob1990page292">{{cite book|author=Joseph L. Doob|title=Stochastic processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrsrAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Wiley|pages=292, 293}}</ref> or even more general.<ref name="Pisier2016">{{cite book|author=Gilles Pisier|title=Martingales in Banach Spaces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3JNDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-67946-3}}</ref>

A martingale is a discrete-time or continuous-time stochastic process with the property that, at every instant, given the current value and all the past values of the process, the conditional expectation of every future value is equal to the current value. In discrete time, if this property holds for the next value, then it holds for all future values. The exact mathematical definition of a martingale requires two other conditions coupled with the mathematical concept of a filtration, which is related to the intuition of increasing available information as time passes. Martingales are usually defined to be real-valued,<ref name="Klebaner2005page65">{{cite book|author=Fima C. Klebaner|title=Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYzW0uqQxB0C|year=2005|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=978-1-86094-555-7|page=65}}</ref><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page11">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2|page=11}}</ref><ref name="Williams1991page93">{{cite book|author=David Williams|title=Probability with Martingales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9saZ0YSi-AC|year=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-40605-5|pages=93, 94}}</ref> but they can also be complex-valued<ref name="Doob1990page292">{{cite book|author=Joseph L. Doob|title=Stochastic processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrsrAAAAYAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Wiley|pages=292, 293}}</ref> or even more general.<ref name="Pisier2016">{{cite book|author=Gilles Pisier|title=Martingales in Banach Spaces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3JNDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-67946-3}}</ref>

A symmetric random walk and a Wiener process (with zero drift) are both examples of martingales, respectively, in discrete and continuous time.<ref name="Klebaner2005page65"/><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page11"/> For a [[sequence]] of [[independent and identically distributed]] random variables <math>X_1, X_2, X_3, \dots</math> with zero mean, the stochastic process formed from the successive partial sums <math>X_1,X_1+ X_2, X_1+ X_2+X_3, \dots</math> is a discrete-time martingale.<ref name="Steele2012page12">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|pages=12, 13}}</ref> In this aspect, discrete-time martingales generalize the idea of partial sums of independent random variables.<ref name="HallHeyde2014page2">{{cite book|author1=P. Hall|author2=C. C. Heyde|title=Martingale Limit Theory and Its Application|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqriBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-6322-9|page=2}}</ref>

A symmetric random walk and a Wiener process (with zero drift) are both examples of martingales, respectively, in discrete and continuous time.<ref name="Klebaner2005page65"/><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page11"/> For a [[sequence]] of [[independent and identically distributed]] random variables <math>X_1, X_2, X_3, \dots</math> with zero mean, the stochastic process formed from the successive partial sums <math>X_1,X_1+ X_2, X_1+ X_2+X_3, \dots</math> is a discrete-time martingale.<ref name="Steele2012page12">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|pages=12, 13}}</ref> In this aspect, discrete-time martingales generalize the idea of partial sums of independent random variables.<ref name="HallHeyde2014page2">{{cite book|author1=P. Hall|author2=C. C. Heyde|title=Martingale Limit Theory and Its Application|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqriBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-6322-9|page=2}}</ref>

 

Martingales can also be created from stochastic processes by applying some suitable transformations, which is the case for the homogeneous Poisson process (on the real line) resulting in a martingale called the ''compensated Poisson process''.<ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page11"/> Martingales can also be built from other martingales.<ref name="Steele2012page12"/> For example, there are martingales based on the martingale the Wiener process, forming continuous-time martingales.<ref name="Klebaner2005page65"/><ref name="Steele2012page115">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=115}}</ref>

Martingales can also be created from stochastic processes by applying some suitable transformations, which is the case for the homogeneous Poisson process (on the real line) resulting in a martingale called the ''compensated Poisson process''.<ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page11"/> Martingales can also be built from other martingales.<ref name="Steele2012page12"/> For example, there are martingales based on the martingale the Wiener process, forming continuous-time martingales.<ref name="Klebaner2005page65"/><ref name="Steele2012page115">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=115}}</ref>

 

Martingales mathematically formalize the idea of a fair game,<ref name="Ross1996page295">{{cite book|author=Sheldon M. Ross|title=Stochastic processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImUPAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-12062-9|page=295}}</ref> and they were originally developed to show that it is not possible to win a fair game.<ref name="Steele2012page11"/> But now they are used in many areas of probability, which is one of the main reasons for studying them.<ref name="Williams1991page93"/><ref name="Steele2012page11">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=11}}</ref><ref name="Kallenberg2002page96">{{cite book|author=Olav Kallenberg|title=Foundations of Modern Probability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6fhXh13OyMC|year=2002|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95313-7|pages=96}}</ref> Many problems in probability have been solved by finding a martingale in the problem and studying it.<ref name="Steele2012page371">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=371}}</ref> Martingales will converge, given some conditions on their moments, so they are often used to derive convergence results, due largely to [[martingale convergence theorem]]s.<ref name="HallHeyde2014page2"/><ref name="Steele2012page22">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=22}}</ref><ref name="GrimmettStirzaker2001page336">{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Grimmett|author2=David Stirzaker|title=Probability and Random Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3ig-0M4wSIC|year=2001|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-857222-0|page=336}}</ref>

Martingales mathematically formalize the idea of a fair game,<ref name="Ross1996page295">{{cite book|author=Sheldon M. Ross|title=Stochastic processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImUPAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-12062-9|page=295}}</ref> and they were originally developed to show that it is not possible to win a fair game.<ref name="Steele2012page11"/> But now they are used in many areas of probability, which is one of the main reasons for studying them.<ref name="Williams1991page93"/><ref name="Steele2012page11">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=11}}</ref><ref name="Kallenberg2002page96">{{cite book|author=Olav Kallenberg|title=Foundations of Modern Probability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6fhXh13OyMC|year=2002|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95313-7|pages=96}}</ref> Many problems in probability have been solved by finding a martingale in the problem and studying it.<ref name="Steele2012page371">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=371}}</ref> Martingales will converge, given some conditions on their moments, so they are often used to derive convergence results, due largely to [[martingale convergence theorem]]s.<ref name="HallHeyde2014page2"/><ref name="Steele2012page22">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=22}}</ref><ref name="GrimmettStirzaker2001page336">{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Grimmett|author2=David Stirzaker|title=Probability and Random Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3ig-0M4wSIC|year=2001|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-857222-0|page=336}}</ref>

 

Martingales have many applications in statistics, but it has been remarked that its use and application are not as widespread as it could be in the field of statistics, particularly statistical inference.<ref name="GlassermanKou2006">{{cite journal|last1=Glasserman|first1=Paul|last2=Kou|first2=Steven|title=A Conversation with Chris Heyde|journal=Statistical Science|volume=21|issue=2|year=2006|pages=292, 293|issn=0883-4237|doi=10.1214/088342306000000088|arxiv=math/0609294|bibcode=2006math......9294G}}</ref> They have found applications in areas in probability theory such as queueing theory and Palm calculus<ref name="BaccelliBremaud2013">{{cite book|author1=Francois Baccelli|author2=Pierre Bremaud|title=Elements of Queueing Theory: Palm Martingale Calculus and Stochastic Recurrences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH3pCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR2|year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-662-11657-9}}</ref> and other fields such as economics<ref name="HallHeyde2014pageX">{{cite book|author1=P. Hall|author2=C. C. Heyde|title=Martingale Limit Theory and Its Application|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqriBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|year= 2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-6322-9|page=x}}</ref> and finance.<ref name="MusielaRutkowski2006"/>

Martingales have many applications in statistics, but it has been remarked that its use and application are not as widespread as it could be in the field of statistics, particularly statistical inference.<ref name="GlassermanKou2006">{{cite journal|last1=Glasserman|first1=Paul|last2=Kou|first2=Steven|title=A Conversation with Chris Heyde|journal=Statistical Science|volume=21|issue=2|year=2006|pages=292, 293|issn=0883-4237|doi=10.1214/088342306000000088|arxiv=math/0609294|bibcode=2006math......9294G}}</ref> They have found applications in areas in probability theory such as queueing theory and Palm calculus<ref name="BaccelliBremaud2013">{{cite book|author1=Francois Baccelli|author2=Pierre Bremaud|title=Elements of Queueing Theory: Palm Martingale Calculus and Stochastic Recurrences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH3pCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR2|year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-662-11657-9}}</ref> and other fields such as economics<ref name="HallHeyde2014pageX">{{cite book|author1=P. Hall|author2=C. C. Heyde|title=Martingale Limit Theory and Its Application|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqriBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|year= 2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-6322-9|page=x}}</ref> and finance.<ref name="MusielaRutkowski2006"/>

 

===Lévy process莱维过程===

===Lévy process===

{{Main|Lévy process}}

{{Main|Lévy process}}

Lévy processes are types of stochastic processes that can be considered as generalizations of random walks in continuous time.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/><ref name="Bertoin1998pageVIII">{{cite book|author=Jean Bertoin|title=Lévy Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftcsQgMp5cUC&pg=PR8|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-64632-1|page=viii}}</ref> These processes have many applications in fields such as finance, fluid mechanics, physics and biology.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1336">{{cite journal|last1=Applebaum|first1=David|title=Lévy processes: From probability to finance and quantum groups|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=51|issue=11|year=2004|pages=1336}}</ref><ref name="ApplebaumBook2004page69">{{cite book|author=David Applebaum|title=Lévy Processes and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7eDUjdJxIkC|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83263-2|page=69}}</ref> The main defining characteristics of these processes are their stationarity and independence properties, so they were known as ''processes with stationary and independent increments''. In other words, a stochastic process <math>X</math> is a Lévy process if for <math>n</math> non-negatives numbers, <math>0\leq t_1\leq \dots \leq t_n</math>, the corresponding <math>n-1</math> increments

Lévy processes are types of stochastic processes that can be considered as generalizations of random walks in continuous time.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/><ref name="Bertoin1998pageVIII">{{cite book|author=Jean Bertoin|title=Lévy Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftcsQgMp5cUC&pg=PR8|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-64632-1|page=viii}}</ref> These processes have many applications in fields such as finance, fluid mechanics, physics and biology.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1336">{{cite journal|last1=Applebaum|first1=David|title=Lévy processes: From probability to finance and quantum groups|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=51|issue=11|year=2004|pages=1336}}</ref><ref name="ApplebaumBook2004page69">{{cite book|author=David Applebaum|title=Lévy Processes and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7eDUjdJxIkC|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83263-2|page=69}}</ref> The main defining characteristics of these processes are their stationarity and independence properties, so they were known as ''processes with stationary and independent increments''. In other words, a stochastic process <math>X</math> is a Lévy process if for <math>n</math> non-negatives numbers, <math>0\leq t_1\leq \dots \leq t_n</math>, the corresponding <math>n-1</math> increments

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are all independent of each other, and the distribution of each increment only depends on the difference in time.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/>

are all independent of each other, and the distribution of each increment only depends on the difference in time.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/>

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A Lévy process can be defined such that its state space is some abstract mathematical space, such as a [[Banach space]], but the processes are often defined so that they take values in Euclidean space. The index set is the non-negative numbers, so <math> I= [0,\infty) </math>, which gives the interpretation of time. Important stochastic processes such as the Wiener process, the homogeneous Poisson process (in one dimension), and [[subordinator (mathematics)|subordinators]] are all Lévy processes.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/><ref name="Bertoin1998pageVIII"/>

A Lévy process can be defined such that its state space is some abstract mathematical space, such as a [[Banach space]], but the processes are often defined so that they take values in Euclidean space. The index set is the non-negative numbers, so <math> I= [0,\infty) </math>, which gives the interpretation of time. Important stochastic processes such as the Wiener process, the homogeneous Poisson process (in one dimension), and [[subordinator (mathematics)|subordinators]] are all Lévy processes.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/><ref name="Bertoin1998pageVIII"/>

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===Random field===

===Random field随机场===

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{{Main|Random field}}

A random field is a collection of random variables indexed by a <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space or some manifold. In general, a random field can be considered an example of a stochastic or random process, where the index set is not necessarily a subset of the real line.<ref name="AdlerTaylor2009page7"/> But there is a convention that an indexed collection of random variables is called a random field when the index has two or more dimensions.<ref name="GikhmanSkorokhod1969page1"/><ref name="Lamperti1977page1"/><ref name="KoralovSinai2007page171">{{cite book|author1=Leonid Koralov|author2=Yakov G. Sinai|title=Theory of Probability and Random Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlWOphOFRgwC|year=2007|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-68829-7|page=171}}</ref> If the specific definition of a stochastic process requires the index set to be a subset of the real line, then the random field can be considered as a generalization of stochastic process.<ref name="ApplebaumBook2004page19">{{cite book|author=David Applebaum|title=Lévy Processes and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7eDUjdJxIkC|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83263-2|page=19}}</ref>

A random field is a collection of random variables indexed by a <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space or some manifold. In general, a random field can be considered an example of a stochastic or random process, where the index set is not necessarily a subset of the real line.<ref name="AdlerTaylor2009page7"/> But there is a convention that an indexed collection of random variables is called a random field when the index has two or more dimensions.<ref name="GikhmanSkorokhod1969page1"/><ref name="Lamperti1977page1"/><ref name="KoralovSinai2007page171">{{cite book|author1=Leonid Koralov|author2=Yakov G. Sinai|title=Theory of Probability and Random Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlWOphOFRgwC|year=2007|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-68829-7|page=171}}</ref> If the specific definition of a stochastic process requires the index set to be a subset of the real line, then the random field can be considered as a generalization of stochastic process.<ref name="ApplebaumBook2004page19">{{cite book|author=David Applebaum|title=Lévy Processes and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7eDUjdJxIkC|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83263-2|page=19}}</ref>

 

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===Point process===

===Point process点过程===

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{{Main|Point process}}

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A point process is a collection of points randomly located on some mathematical space such as the real line, <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space, or more abstract spaces. Sometimes the term ''point process'' is not preferred, as historically the word ''process'' denoted an evolution of some system in time, so a point process is also called a '''random point field'''.<ref name="ChiuStoyan2013page109">{{cite book|author1=Sung Nok Chiu|author2=Dietrich Stoyan|author3=Wilfrid S. Kendall|author4=Joseph Mecke|title=Stochastic Geometry and Its Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=825NfM6Nc-EC|year=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-65825-3|page=109}}</ref> There are different interpretations of a point process, such a random counting measure or a random set.<ref name="ChiuStoyan2013page108">{{cite book|author1=Sung Nok Chiu|author2=Dietrich Stoyan|author3=Wilfrid S. Kendall|author4=Joseph Mecke|title=Stochastic Geometry and Its Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=825NfM6Nc-EC|year=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-65825-3|page=108}}</ref><ref name="Haenggi2013page10">{{cite book|author=Martin Haenggi|title=Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLtDhblwWEgC|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01469-5|page=10}}</ref> Some authors regard a point process and stochastic process as two different objects such that a point process is a random object that arises from or is associated with a stochastic process,<ref name="DaleyVere-Jones2006page194">{{cite book|author1=D.J. Daley|author2=D. Vere-Jones|title=An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes: Volume I: Elementary Theory and Methods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Sv4BwAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-21564-8|page=194}}</ref><ref name="CoxIsham1980page3">{{cite book|author1=D.R. Cox|author2=Valerie Isham|title=Point Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWF2xY6s3PoC|year=1980|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-412-21910-8|page=3}}</ref> though it has been remarked that the difference between point processes and stochastic processes is not clear.<ref name="CoxIsham1980page3"/>

A point process is a collection of points randomly located on some mathematical space such as the real line, <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space, or more abstract spaces. Sometimes the term ''point process'' is not preferred, as historically the word ''process'' denoted an evolution of some system in time, so a point process is also called a '''random point field'''.<ref name="ChiuStoyan2013page109">{{cite book|author1=Sung Nok Chiu|author2=Dietrich Stoyan|author3=Wilfrid S. Kendall|author4=Joseph Mecke|title=Stochastic Geometry and Its Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=825NfM6Nc-EC|year=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-65825-3|page=109}}</ref> There are different interpretations of a point process, such a random counting measure or a random set.<ref name="ChiuStoyan2013page108">{{cite book|author1=Sung Nok Chiu|author2=Dietrich Stoyan|author3=Wilfrid S. Kendall|author4=Joseph Mecke|title=Stochastic Geometry and Its Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=825NfM6Nc-EC|year=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-65825-3|page=108}}</ref><ref name="Haenggi2013page10">{{cite book|author=Martin Haenggi|title=Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLtDhblwWEgC|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01469-5|page=10}}</ref> Some authors regard a point process and stochastic process as two different objects such that a point process is a random object that arises from or is associated with a stochastic process,<ref name="DaleyVere-Jones2006page194">{{cite book|author1=D.J. Daley|author2=D. Vere-Jones|title=An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes: Volume I: Elementary Theory and Methods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Sv4BwAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-21564-8|page=194}}</ref><ref name="CoxIsham1980page3">{{cite book|author1=D.R. Cox|author2=Valerie Isham|title=Point Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWF2xY6s3PoC|year=1980|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-412-21910-8|page=3}}</ref> though it has been remarked that the difference between point processes and stochastic processes is not clear.<ref name="CoxIsham1980page3"/>

 

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Other authors consider a point process as a stochastic process, where the process is indexed by sets of the underlying space{{efn|In the context of point processes, the term "state space" can mean the space on which the point process is defined such as the real line,<ref name="Kingman1992page8">{{cite book|author=J. F. C. Kingman|title=Poisson Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEiM-OtwDHkC|year=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-159124-2|page=8}}</ref><ref name="MollerWaagepetersen2003page7">{{cite book|author1=Jesper Moller|author2=Rasmus Plenge Waagepetersen|title=Statistical Inference and Simulation for Spatial Point Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBNOHvElXZ4C|year=2003|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-203-49693-0|page=7}}</ref> which corresponds to the index set in stochastic process terminology.}} on which it is defined, such as the real line or <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space.<ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page31">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|page=31}}</ref><ref name="Schmidt2014page99">{{cite book|author=Volker Schmidt|title=Stochastic Geometry, Spatial Statistics and Random Fields: Models and Algorithms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brsUBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR5|date= 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-10064-7|page=99}}</ref> Other stochastic processes such as renewal and counting processes are studied in the theory of point processes.<ref name="DaleyVere-Jones200">{{cite book|author1=D.J. Daley|author2=D. Vere-Jones|title=An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes: Volume I: Elementary Theory and Methods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Sv4BwAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-21564-8}}</ref><ref name="CoxIsham1980">{{cite book|author1=D.R. Cox|author2=Valerie Isham|title=Point Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWF2xY6s3PoC|year=1980|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-412-21910-8}}</ref>

Other authors consider a point process as a stochastic process, where the process is indexed by sets of the underlying space{{efn|In the context of point processes, the term "state space" can mean the space on which the point process is defined such as the real line,<ref name="Kingman1992page8">{{cite book|author=J. F. C. Kingman|title=Poisson Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEiM-OtwDHkC|year=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-159124-2|page=8}}</ref><ref name="MollerWaagepetersen2003page7">{{cite book|author1=Jesper Moller|author2=Rasmus Plenge Waagepetersen|title=Statistical Inference and Simulation for Spatial Point Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dBNOHvElXZ4C|year=2003|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-203-49693-0|page=7}}</ref> which corresponds to the index set in stochastic process terminology.}} on which it is defined, such as the real line or <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space.<ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page31">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|page=31}}</ref><ref name="Schmidt2014page99">{{cite book|author=Volker Schmidt|title=Stochastic Geometry, Spatial Statistics and Random Fields: Models and Algorithms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brsUBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR5|date= 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-10064-7|page=99}}</ref> Other stochastic processes such as renewal and counting processes are studied in the theory of point processes.<ref name="DaleyVere-Jones200">{{cite book|author1=D.J. Daley|author2=D. Vere-Jones|title=An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes: Volume I: Elementary Theory and Methods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Sv4BwAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-21564-8}}</ref><ref name="CoxIsham1980">{{cite book|author1=D.R. Cox|author2=Valerie Isham|title=Point Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWF2xY6s3PoC|year=1980|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-412-21910-8}}</ref>

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===Early probability theory===

===Early probability theory早期概率论===

Probability theory has its origins in games of chance, which have a long history, with some games being played thousands of years ago,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Markov Chains: From Theory to Implementation and Experimentation|last=Gagniuc|first=Paul A.|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2017|isbn=978-1-119-38755-8|location=US|pages=1–2}}</ref><ref name="David1955">{{cite journal|last1=David|first1=F. N.|title=Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics I. Dicing and Gaming (A Note on the History of Probability)|journal=Biometrika|volume=42|issue=1/2|pages=1–15|year=1955|issn=0006-3444|doi=10.2307/2333419|jstor=2333419}}</ref> but very little analysis on them was done in terms of probability.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Maistrov2014page1">{{cite book|author=L. E. Maistrov|title=Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZbiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR9|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-1863-2|page=1}}</ref> The year 1654 is often considered the birth of probability theory when French mathematicians [[Pierre Fermat]] and [[Blaise Pascal]] had a written correspondence on probability, motivated by a [[Problem of points|gambling problem]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Seneta2006page1">{{cite book|last1=Seneta|first1=E.|title=Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences|chapter=Probability, History of|year=2006|doi=10.1002/0471667196.ess2065.pub2|page=1|isbn=978-0471667193}}</ref><ref name="Tabak2014page24to26">{{cite book|author=John Tabak|title=Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3WVqBPHboAC|year=2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6873-9|pages=24–26}}</ref> But there was earlier mathematical work done on the probability of gambling games such as ''Liber de Ludo Aleae'' by [[Gerolamo Cardano]], written in the 16th century but posthumously published later in 1663.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Bellhouse2005">{{cite journal|last1=Bellhouse|first1=David|title=Decoding Cardano's Liber de Ludo Aleae|journal=Historia Mathematica|volume=32|issue=2|year=2005|pages=180–202|issn=0315-0860|doi=10.1016/j.hm.2004.04.001|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Probability theory has its origins in games of chance, which have a long history, with some games being played thousands of years ago,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Markov Chains: From Theory to Implementation and Experimentation|last=Gagniuc|first=Paul A.|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2017|isbn=978-1-119-38755-8|location=US|pages=1–2}}</ref><ref name="David1955">{{cite journal|last1=David|first1=F. N.|title=Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics I. Dicing and Gaming (A Note on the History of Probability)|journal=Biometrika|volume=42|issue=1/2|pages=1–15|year=1955|issn=0006-3444|doi=10.2307/2333419|jstor=2333419}}</ref> but very little analysis on them was done in terms of probability.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Maistrov2014page1">{{cite book|author=L. E. Maistrov|title=Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZbiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR9|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-1863-2|page=1}}</ref> The year 1654 is often considered the birth of probability theory when French mathematicians [[Pierre Fermat]] and [[Blaise Pascal]] had a written correspondence on probability, motivated by a [[Problem of points|gambling problem]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Seneta2006page1">{{cite book|last1=Seneta|first1=E.|title=Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences|chapter=Probability, History of|year=2006|doi=10.1002/0471667196.ess2065.pub2|page=1|isbn=978-0471667193}}</ref><ref name="Tabak2014page24to26">{{cite book|author=John Tabak|title=Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3WVqBPHboAC|year=2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6873-9|pages=24–26}}</ref> But there was earlier mathematical work done on the probability of gambling games such as ''Liber de Ludo Aleae'' by [[Gerolamo Cardano]], written in the 16th century but posthumously published later in 1663.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Bellhouse2005">{{cite journal|last1=Bellhouse|first1=David|title=Decoding Cardano's Liber de Ludo Aleae|journal=Historia Mathematica|volume=32|issue=2|year=2005|pages=180–202|issn=0315-0860|doi=10.1016/j.hm.2004.04.001|doi-access=free}}</ref>

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After Cardano, [[Jakob Bernoulli]]{{efn|Also known as James or Jacques Bernoulli.<ref name="Hald2005page221">{{cite book|author=Anders Hald|title=A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOQy6-qnVx8C|year=2005|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-72517-6|page=221}}</ref>}} wrote [[Ars Conjectandi]], which is considered a significant event in the history of probability theory.<ref name=":1" /> Bernoulli's book was published, also posthumously, in 1713 and inspired many mathematicians to study probability.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Maistrov2014page56">{{cite book|author=L. E. Maistrov|title=Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZbiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR9|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-1863-2|page=56}}</ref><ref name="Tabak2014page37">{{cite book|author=John Tabak|title=Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3WVqBPHboAC|year=2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6873-9|page=37}}</ref> But despite some renowned mathematicians contributing to probability theory, such as [[Pierre-Simon Laplace]], [[Abraham de Moivre]], [[Carl Gauss]], [[Siméon Poisson]] and [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]],<ref name="Chung1998">{{cite journal|last1=Chung|first1=Kai Lai|title=Probability and Doob|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=105|issue=1|pages=28–35|year=1998|issn=0002-9890|doi=10.2307/2589523|jstor=2589523}}</ref><ref name="Bingham2000">{{cite journal|last1=Bingham|first1=N.|title=Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLVI. Measure into probability: from Lebesgue to Kolmogorov|journal=Biometrika|volume=87|issue=1|year=2000|pages=145–156|issn=0006-3444|doi=10.1093/biomet/87.1.145}}</ref> most of the mathematical community{{efn|It has been remarked that a notable exception was the St Petersburg School in Russia, where mathematicians  led by Chebyshev studied probability theory.<ref name="BenziBenzi2007">{{cite journal|last1=Benzi|first1=Margherita|last2=Benzi|first2=Michele|last3=Seneta|first3=Eugene|title=Francesco Paolo Cantelli. b. 20 December 1875 d. 21 July 1966|journal=International Statistical Review|volume=75|issue=2|year=2007|page=128|issn=0306-7734|doi=10.1111/j.1751-5823.2007.00009.x}}</ref>}} did not consider probability theory to be part of mathematics until the 20th century.<ref name="Chung1998"/><ref name="BenziBenzi2007"/><ref name="Doob1996">{{cite journal|last1=Doob|first1=Joseph L.|title=The Development of Rigor in Mathematical Probability (1900-1950)|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=103|issue=7|pages=586–595|year=1996|issn=0002-9890|doi=10.2307/2974673|jstor=2974673}}</ref><ref name="Cramer1976">{{cite journal|last1=Cramer|first1=Harald|title=Half a Century with Probability Theory: Some Personal Recollections|journal=The Annals of Probability|volume=4|issue=4|year=1976|pages=509–546|issn=0091-1798|doi=10.1214/aop/1176996025|doi-access=free}}</ref>

After Cardano, [[Jakob Bernoulli]]{{efn|Also known as James or Jacques Bernoulli.<ref name="Hald2005page221">{{cite book|author=Anders Hald|title=A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOQy6-qnVx8C|year=2005|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-72517-6|page=221}}</ref>}} wrote [[Ars Conjectandi]], which is considered a significant event in the history of probability theory.<ref name=":1" /> Bernoulli's book was published, also posthumously, in 1713 and inspired many mathematicians to study probability.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Maistrov2014page56">{{cite book|author=L. E. Maistrov|title=Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZbiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR9|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-1863-2|page=56}}</ref><ref name="Tabak2014page37">{{cite book|author=John Tabak|title=Probability and Statistics: The Science of Uncertainty|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3WVqBPHboAC|year=2014|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6873-9|page=37}}</ref> But despite some renowned mathematicians contributing to probability theory, such as [[Pierre-Simon Laplace]], [[Abraham de Moivre]], [[Carl Gauss]], [[Siméon Poisson]] and [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]],<ref name="Chung1998">{{cite journal|last1=Chung|first1=Kai Lai|title=Probability and Doob|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=105|issue=1|pages=28–35|year=1998|issn=0002-9890|doi=10.2307/2589523|jstor=2589523}}</ref><ref name="Bingham2000">{{cite journal|last1=Bingham|first1=N.|title=Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLVI. Measure into probability: from Lebesgue to Kolmogorov|journal=Biometrika|volume=87|issue=1|year=2000|pages=145–156|issn=0006-3444|doi=10.1093/biomet/87.1.145}}</ref> most of the mathematical community{{efn|It has been remarked that a notable exception was the St Petersburg School in Russia, where mathematicians  led by Chebyshev studied probability theory.<ref name="BenziBenzi2007">{{cite journal|last1=Benzi|first1=Margherita|last2=Benzi|first2=Michele|last3=Seneta|first3=Eugene|title=Francesco Paolo Cantelli. b. 20 December 1875 d. 21 July 1966|journal=International Statistical Review|volume=75|issue=2|year=2007|page=128|issn=0306-7734|doi=10.1111/j.1751-5823.2007.00009.x}}</ref>}} did not consider probability theory to be part of mathematics until the 20th century.<ref name="Chung1998"/><ref name="BenziBenzi2007"/><ref name="Doob1996">{{cite journal|last1=Doob|first1=Joseph L.|title=The Development of Rigor in Mathematical Probability (1900-1950)|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=103|issue=7|pages=586–595|year=1996|issn=0002-9890|doi=10.2307/2974673|jstor=2974673}}</ref><ref name="Cramer1976">{{cite journal|last1=Cramer|first1=Harald|title=Half a Century with Probability Theory: Some Personal Recollections|journal=The Annals of Probability|volume=4|issue=4|year=1976|pages=509–546|issn=0091-1798|doi=10.1214/aop/1176996025|doi-access=free}}</ref>

===Statistical mechanics===

In the physical sciences, scientists developed in the 19th century the discipline of [[statistical mechanics]], where physical systems, such as containers filled with gases, can be regarded or treated mathematically as collections of many moving particles. Although there were attempts to incorporate randomness into statistical physics by some scientists, such as [[Rudolf Clausius]], most of the work had little or no randomness.<ref name="Truesdell1975page22">{{cite journal|last1=Truesdell|first1=C.|title=Early kinetic theories of gases|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=15|issue=1|year=1975|pages=22–23|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00327232}}</ref><ref name="Brush1967page150">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=Stephen G.|title=Foundations of statistical mechanics 1845?1915|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=4|issue=3|year=1967|pages=150–151|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00412958}}</ref>

In the physical sciences, scientists developed in the 19th century the discipline of [[statistical mechanics]], where physical systems, such as containers filled with gases, can be regarded or treated mathematically as collections of many moving particles. Although there were attempts to incorporate randomness into statistical physics by some scientists, such as [[Rudolf Clausius]], most of the work had little or no randomness.<ref name="Truesdell1975page22">{{cite journal|last1=Truesdell|first1=C.|title=Early kinetic theories of gases|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=15|issue=1|year=1975|pages=22–23|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00327232}}</ref><ref name="Brush1967page150">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=Stephen G.|title=Foundations of statistical mechanics 1845?1915|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=4|issue=3|year=1967|pages=150–151|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00412958}}</ref>

在物理科学中，科学家们在19世纪发展了[[统计力学]]这门学科，在这个学科中，物理系统，例如装满气体的容器，可以从数学上看作或处理为许多运动粒子的集合。尽管有些科学家试图将随机性纳入统计物理学，比如[[Rudolf Clausius]]，大部分工作几乎没有或几乎没有随机性。<ref name=“Truesdell1975page22”>{{{cite journal 124; last1=Truesdell | first 1=C.；title=早期气体动力学理论气体；journal=Archive for History of Exact科学科学史| volume=15 | issue=1 | year=1975；pages22–23 | issn=0003-9519 | doi=10.1007/bf003272232}}</ref name=“Brus1961967page150”{{ref ref name=“Brus1961967page150”[页150”[[[[[{引用journal | last1=Brush | first1=Stephen G.| title=统计力学基础1845？1915年|期刊=精确科学史档案|卷=4 |问题=3 |年=1967 |页=150–151 | issn=0003-9519 | doi=10.1007/BF00412958}</ref>

This changed in 1859 when [[James Clerk Maxwell]] contributed significantly to the field, more specifically, to the kinetic theory of gases, by presenting work where he assumed the gas particles move in random directions at random velocities.<ref name="Truesdell1975page31">{{cite journal|last1=Truesdell|first1=C.|title=Early kinetic theories of gases|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=15|issue=1|year=1975|pages=31–32|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00327232}}</ref><ref name="Brush1958">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=S.G.|title=The development of the kinetic theory of gases IV. Maxwell|journal=Annals of Science|volume=14|issue=4|year=1958|pages=243–255|issn=0003-3790|doi=10.1080/00033795800200147}}</ref> The kinetic theory of gases and statistical physics continued to be developed in the second half of the 19th century, with work done chiefly by Clausius, [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] and [[Josiah Gibbs]], which would later have an influence on [[Albert Einstein]]'s mathematical model for [[Brownian movement]].<ref name="Brush1968page15">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=Stephen G.|title=A history of random processes|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=5|issue=1|year=1968|pages=15–16|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00328110}}</ref>

This changed in 1859 when [[James Clerk Maxwell]] contributed significantly to the field, more specifically, to the kinetic theory of gases, by presenting work where he assumed the gas particles move in random directions at random velocities.<ref name="Truesdell1975page31">{{cite journal|last1=Truesdell|first1=C.|title=Early kinetic theories of gases|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=15|issue=1|year=1975|pages=31–32|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00327232}}</ref><ref name="Brush1958">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=S.G.|title=The development of the kinetic theory of gases IV. Maxwell|journal=Annals of Science|volume=14|issue=4|year=1958|pages=243–255|issn=0003-3790|doi=10.1080/00033795800200147}}</ref> The kinetic theory of gases and statistical physics continued to be developed in the second half of the 19th century, with work done chiefly by Clausius, [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] and [[Josiah Gibbs]], which would later have an influence on [[Albert Einstein]]'s mathematical model for [[Brownian movement]].<ref name="Brush1968page15">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=Stephen G.|title=A history of random processes|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=5|issue=1|year=1968|pages=15–16|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00328110}}</ref>

 

===Measure theory and probability theory测度论与概率论===

===Measure theory and probability theory===

At the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]] in [[Paris]] in 1900, [[David Hilbert]] presented a list of [[Hilbert's problems|mathematical problems]], where his sixth problem asked for a mathematical treatment of physics and probability involving [[axiom]]s.<ref name="Bingham2000"/> Around the start of the 20th century, mathematicians developed measure theory, a branch of mathematics for studying integrals of mathematical functions, where two of the founders were French mathematicians, [[Henri Lebesgue]] and [[Émile Borel]]. In 1925 another French mathematician [[Paul Lévy (mathematician)|Paul Lévy]] published the first probability book that used ideas from measure theory.<ref name="Bingham2000"/>

At the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]] in [[Paris]] in 1900, [[David Hilbert]] presented a list of [[Hilbert's problems|mathematical problems]], where his sixth problem asked for a mathematical treatment of physics and probability involving [[axiom]]s.<ref name="Bingham2000"/> Around the start of the 20th century, mathematicians developed measure theory, a branch of mathematics for studying integrals of mathematical functions, where two of the founders were French mathematicians, [[Henri Lebesgue]] and [[Émile Borel]]. In 1925 another French mathematician [[Paul Lévy (mathematician)|Paul Lévy]] published the first probability book that used ideas from measure theory.<ref name="Bingham2000"/>

 

In 1920s fundamental contributions to probability theory were made in the Soviet Union by mathematicians such as [[Sergei Bernstein]], [[Aleksandr Khinchin]],{{efn|The name Khinchin is also written in (or transliterated into) English as Khintchine.<ref name="Doob1934">{{cite journal|last1=Doob|first1=Joseph|title=Stochastic Processes and Statistics|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=20|issue=6|year=1934|pages=376–379|doi=10.1073/pnas.20.6.376|pmid=16587907|pmc=1076423|bibcode=1934PNAS...20..376D}}</ref>}} and [[Andrei Kolmogorov]].<ref name="Cramer1976"/> Kolmogorov published in 1929 his first attempt at presenting a mathematical foundation, based on measure theory, for probability theory.<ref name="KendallBatchelor1990page33">{{cite journal|last1=Kendall|first1=D. G.|last2=Batchelor|first2=G. K.|last3=Bingham|first3=N. H.|last4=Hayman|first4=W. K.|last5=Hyland|first5=J. M. E.|last6=Lorentz|first6=G. G.|last7=Moffatt|first7=H. K.|last8=Parry|first8=W.|last9=Razborov|first9=A. A.|last10=Robinson|first10=C. A.|last11=Whittle|first11=P.|title=Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903–1987)|journal=Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society|volume=22|issue=1|year=1990|page=33|issn=0024-6093|doi=10.1112/blms/22.1.31}}</ref> In the early 1930s Khinchin and Kolmogorov set up probability seminars, which were attended by researchers such as [[Eugene Slutsky]] and [[Nikolai Smirnov (mathematician)|Nikolai Smirnov]],<ref name="Vere-Jones2006page1">{{cite book|last1=Vere-Jones|first1=David|title=Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences|chapter=Khinchin, Aleksandr Yakovlevich|page=1|year=2006|doi=10.1002/0471667196.ess6027.pub2|isbn=978-0471667193}}</ref> and Khinchin gave the first mathematical definition of a stochastic process as a set of random variables indexed by the real line.<ref name="Doob1934"/><ref name="Vere-Jones2006page4">{{cite book|last1=Vere-Jones|first1=David|title=Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences|chapter=Khinchin, Aleksandr Yakovlevich|page=4|year=2006|doi=10.1002/0471667196.ess6027.pub2|isbn=978-0471667193}}</ref>{{efn|Doob, when citing Khinchin, uses the term 'chance variable', which used to be an alternative term for 'random variable'.<ref name="Snell2005">{{cite journal|last1=Snell|first1=J. Laurie|title=Obituary: Joseph Leonard Doob|journal=Journal of Applied Probability|volume=42|issue=1|year=2005|page=251|issn=0021-9002|doi=10.1239/jap/1110381384|doi-access=free}}</ref> }}

In 1920s fundamental contributions to probability theory were made in the Soviet Union by mathematicians such as [[Sergei Bernstein]], [[Aleksandr Khinchin]],{{efn|The name Khinchin is also written in (or transliterated into) English as Khintchine.<ref name="Doob1934">{{cite journal|last1=Doob|first1=Joseph|title=Stochastic Processes and Statistics|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=20|issue=6|year=1934|pages=376–379|doi=10.1073/pnas.20.6.376|pmid=16587907|pmc=1076423|bibcode=1934PNAS...20..376D}}</ref>}} and [[Andrei Kolmogorov]].<ref name="Cramer1976"/> Kolmogorov published in 1929 his first attempt at presenting a mathematical foundation, based on measure theory, for probability theory.<ref name="KendallBatchelor1990page33">{{cite journal|last1=Kendall|first1=D. G.|last2=Batchelor|first2=G. K.|last3=Bingham|first3=N. H.|last4=Hayman|first4=W. K.|last5=Hyland|first5=J. M. E.|last6=Lorentz|first6=G. G.|last7=Moffatt|first7=H. K.|last8=Parry|first8=W.|last9=Razborov|first9=A. A.|last10=Robinson|first10=C. A.|last11=Whittle|first11=P.|title=Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903–1987)|journal=Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society|volume=22|issue=1|year=1990|page=33|issn=0024-6093|doi=10.1112/blms/22.1.31}}</ref> In the early 1930s Khinchin and Kolmogorov set up probability seminars, which were attended by researchers such as [[Eugene Slutsky]] and [[Nikolai Smirnov (mathematician)|Nikolai Smirnov]],<ref name="Vere-Jones2006page1">{{cite book|last1=Vere-Jones|first1=David|title=Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences|chapter=Khinchin, Aleksandr Yakovlevich|page=1|year=2006|doi=10.1002/0471667196.ess6027.pub2|isbn=978-0471667193}}</ref> and Khinchin gave the first mathematical definition of a stochastic process as a set of random variables indexed by the real line.<ref name="Doob1934"/><ref name="Vere-Jones2006page4">{{cite book|last1=Vere-Jones|first1=David|title=Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences|chapter=Khinchin, Aleksandr Yakovlevich|page=4|year=2006|doi=10.1002/0471667196.ess6027.pub2|isbn=978-0471667193}}</ref>{{efn|Doob, when citing Khinchin, uses the term 'chance variable', which used to be an alternative term for 'random variable'.<ref name="Snell2005">{{cite journal|last1=Snell|first1=J. Laurie|title=Obituary: Joseph Leonard Doob|journal=Journal of Applied Probability|volume=42|issue=1|year=2005|page=251|issn=0021-9002|doi=10.1239/jap/1110381384|doi-access=free}}</ref> }}

 

===Birth of modern probability theory现代概率论的诞生===

===Birth of modern probability theory===

In 1933 Andrei Kolmogorov published in German, his book on the foundations of probability theory titled ''Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung'',{{efn|Later translated into English and published in 1950 as Foundations of the Theory of Probability<ref name="Bingham2000"/>}} where Kolmogorov used measure theory to develop an axiomatic framework for probability theory. The publication of this book is now widely considered to be the birth of modern probability theory, when the theories of probability and stochastic processes became parts of mathematics.<ref name="Bingham2000"/><ref name="Cramer1976"/>

In 1933 Andrei Kolmogorov published in German, his book on the foundations of probability theory titled ''Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung'',{{efn|Later translated into English and published in 1950 as Foundations of the Theory of Probability<ref name="Bingham2000"/>}} where Kolmogorov used measure theory to develop an axiomatic framework for probability theory. The publication of this book is now widely considered to be the birth of modern probability theory, when the theories of probability and stochastic processes became parts of mathematics.<ref name="Bingham2000"/><ref name="Cramer1976"/>

After the publication of Kolmogorov's book, further fundamental work on probability theory and stochastic processes was done by Khinchin and Kolmogorov as well as other mathematicians such as [[Joseph Doob]], [[William Feller]], [[Maurice Fréchet]], [[Paul Lévy (mathematician)|Paul Lévy]], [[Wolfgang Doeblin]], and [[Harald Cramér]].<ref name="Bingham2000"/><ref name="Cramer1976"/>

在科尔莫戈洛夫的书出版后，钦钦和科尔莫戈洛夫以及其他数学家如[[Joseph Doob]]、[[William Feller]]、[[Maurice Fréchet]]、[[Paul Lévy（数学家）| Paul Lévy]]、[[Wolfgang Doeblin]]等对概率论和随机过程进行了进一步的基础性工作，和[[Harald Cramér].<ref name=“Bingham2000”/><ref name=“Cramer1976”/>

Decades later Cramér referred to the 1930s as the "heroic period of mathematical probability theory".<ref name="Cramer1976"/> [[World War II]] greatly interrupted the development of probability theory, causing, for example, the migration of Feller from [[Sweden]] to the [[United States|United States of America]]<ref name="Cramer1976"/> and the death of Doeblin, considered now a pioneer in stochastic processes.<ref name="Lindvall1991">{{cite journal|last1=Lindvall|first1=Torgny|title=W. Doeblin, 1915-1940|journal=The Annals of Probability|volume=19|issue=3|year=1991|pages=929–934|issn=0091-1798|doi=10.1214/aop/1176990329|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Decades later Cramér referred to the 1930s as the "heroic period of mathematical probability theory".<ref name="Cramer1976"/> [[World War II]] greatly interrupted the development of probability theory, causing, for example, the migration of Feller from [[Sweden]] to the [[United States|United States of America]]<ref name="Cramer1976"/> and the death of Doeblin, considered now a pioneer in stochastic processes.<ref name="Lindvall1991">{{cite journal|last1=Lindvall|first1=Torgny|title=W. Doeblin, 1915-1940|journal=The Annals of Probability|volume=19|issue=3|year=1991|pages=929–934|issn=0091-1798|doi=10.1214/aop/1176990329|doi-access=free}}</ref>

 

[[File:Joseph Doob.jpg|thumb|right|Mathematician [[Joseph Doob]] did early work on the theory of stochastic processes, making fundamental contributions, particularly in the theory of martingales.<ref name="Getoor2009"/><ref name="Snell2005"/> His book ''Stochastic Processes'' is considered highly influential in the field of probability theory.<ref name="Bingham2005"/> ]]

[[File:Joseph Doob.jpg|thumb|right|Mathematician [[Joseph Doob]] did early work on the theory of stochastic processes, making fundamental contributions, particularly in the theory of martingales.<ref name="Getoor2009"/><ref name="Snell2005"/> His book ''Stochastic Processes'' is considered highly influential in the field of probability theory.<ref name="Bingham2005"/> ]]

 

===Stochastic processes after World War II二战后的随机过程===

===Stochastic processes after World War II===

After World War II the study of probability theory and stochastic processes gained more attention from mathematicians, with significant contributions made in many areas of probability and mathematics as well as the creation of new areas.<ref name="Cramer1976"/><ref name="Meyer2009">{{cite journal|last1=Meyer|first1=Paul-André|title=Stochastic Processes from 1950 to the Present|journal=Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics|volume=5|issue=1|year=2009|pages=1–42}}</ref> Starting in the 1940s, [[Kiyosi Itô]] published papers developing the field of [[stochastic calculus]], which involves stochastic [[integrals]] and stochastic [[differential equations]] based on the Wiener or Brownian motion process.<ref name="Ito1998Prize">{{cite journal|title=Kiyosi Itô receives Kyoto Prize|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=45|issue=8|year=1998|pages=981–982}}</ref>

After World War II the study of probability theory and stochastic processes gained more attention from mathematicians, with significant contributions made in many areas of probability and mathematics as well as the creation of new areas.<ref name="Cramer1976"/><ref name="Meyer2009">{{cite journal|last1=Meyer|first1=Paul-André|title=Stochastic Processes from 1950 to the Present|journal=Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics|volume=5|issue=1|year=2009|pages=1–42}}</ref> Starting in the 1940s, [[Kiyosi Itô]] published papers developing the field of [[stochastic calculus]], which involves stochastic [[integrals]] and stochastic [[differential equations]] based on the Wiener or Brownian motion process.<ref name="Ito1998Prize">{{cite journal|title=Kiyosi Itô receives Kyoto Prize|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=45|issue=8|year=1998|pages=981–982}}</ref>

 

Also starting in the 1940s, connections were made between stochastic processes, particularly martingales, and the mathematical field of [[potential theory]], with early ideas by [[Shizuo Kakutani]] and then later work by Joseph Doob.<ref name="Meyer2009"/> Further work, considered pioneering, was done by [[Gilbert Hunt]] in the 1950s, connecting Markov processes and potential theory, which had a significant effect on the theory of Lévy processes and led to more interest in studying Markov processes with methods developed by Itô.<ref name="JarrowProtter2004"/><ref name="Bertoin1998pageVIIIandIX">{{cite book|author=Jean Bertoin|title=Lévy Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftcsQgMp5cUC&pg=PR8|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-64632-1|page=viii and ix}}</ref><ref name="Steele2012page176">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=176}}</ref>

Also starting in the 1940s, connections were made between stochastic processes, particularly martingales, and the mathematical field of [[potential theory]], with early ideas by [[Shizuo Kakutani]] and then later work by Joseph Doob.<ref name="Meyer2009"/> Further work, considered pioneering, was done by [[Gilbert Hunt]] in the 1950s, connecting Markov processes and potential theory, which had a significant effect on the theory of Lévy processes and led to more interest in studying Markov processes with methods developed by Itô.<ref name="JarrowProtter2004"/><ref name="Bertoin1998pageVIIIandIX">{{cite book|author=Jean Bertoin|title=Lévy Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ftcsQgMp5cUC&pg=PR8|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-64632-1|page=viii and ix}}</ref><ref name="Steele2012page176">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=176}}</ref>

 

In 1953 Doob published his book ''Stochastic processes'', which had a strong influence on the theory of stochastic processes and stressed the importance of measure theory in probability.<ref name="Meyer2009"/>

In 1953 Doob published his book ''Stochastic processes'', which had a strong influence on the theory of stochastic processes and stressed the importance of measure theory in probability.<ref name="Meyer2009"/>

<ref name="Bingham2005">{{cite journal|last1=Bingham|first1=N. H.|title=Doob: a half-century on|journal=Journal of Applied Probability|volume=42|issue=1|year=2005|pages=257–266|issn=0021-9002|doi=10.1239/jap/1110381385|doi-access=free}}</ref> Doob also chiefly developed the theory of martingales, with later substantial contributions by [[Paul-André Meyer]]. Earlier work had been carried out by [[Sergei Bernstein]], [[Paul Lévy (mathematician)|Paul Lévy]] and [[Jean Ville]], the latter adopting the term martingale for the stochastic process.<ref name="HallHeyde2014page1">{{cite book|author1=P. Hall|author2=C. C. Heyde|title=Martingale Limit Theory and Its Application|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqriBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-6322-9|pages=1, 2}}</ref><ref name="Dynkin1989">{{cite journal|last1=Dynkin|first1=E. B.|title=Kolmogorov and the Theory of Markov Processes|journal=The Annals of Probability|volume=17|issue=3|year=1989|pages=822–832|issn=0091-1798|doi=10.1214/aop/1176991248|doi-access=free}}</ref> Methods from the theory of martingales became popular for solving various probability problems. Techniques and theory were developed to study Markov processes and then applied to martingales. Conversely, methods from the theory of martingales were established to treat Markov processes.<ref name="Meyer2009"/>

<ref name="Bingham2005">{{cite journal|last1=Bingham|first1=N. H.|title=Doob: a half-century on|journal=Journal of Applied Probability|volume=42|issue=1|year=2005|pages=257–266|issn=0021-9002|doi=10.1239/jap/1110381385|doi-access=free}}</ref> Doob also chiefly developed the theory of martingales, with later substantial contributions by [[Paul-André Meyer]]. Earlier work had been carried out by [[Sergei Bernstein]], [[Paul Lévy (mathematician)|Paul Lévy]] and [[Jean Ville]], the latter adopting the term martingale for the stochastic process.<ref name="HallHeyde2014page1">{{cite book|author1=P. Hall|author2=C. C. Heyde|title=Martingale Limit Theory and Its Application|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqriBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR10|year=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-6322-9|pages=1, 2}}</ref><ref name="Dynkin1989">{{cite journal|last1=Dynkin|first1=E. B.|title=Kolmogorov and the Theory of Markov Processes|journal=The Annals of Probability|volume=17|issue=3|year=1989|pages=822–832|issn=0091-1798|doi=10.1214/aop/1176991248|doi-access=free}}</ref> Methods from the theory of martingales became popular for solving various probability problems. Techniques and theory were developed to study Markov processes and then applied to martingales. Conversely, methods from the theory of martingales were established to treat Markov processes.<ref name="Meyer2009"/>

 

Other fields of probability were developed and used to study stochastic processes, with one main approach being the theory of large deviations.<ref name="Meyer2009"/> The theory has many applications in statistical physics, among other fields, and has core ideas going back to at least the 1930s. Later in the 1960s and 1970s fundamental work was done by Alexander Wentzell in the Soviet Union and [[Monroe D. Donsker]] and [[Srinivasa Varadhan]] in the United States of America,<ref name="Ellis1995page98">{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Richard S.|title=An overview of the theory of large deviations and applications to statistical mechanics|journal=Scandinavian Actuarial Journal|volume=1995|issue=1|year=1995|page=98|issn=0346-1238|doi=10.1080/03461238.1995.10413952}}</ref> which would later result in Varadhan winning the 2007 Abel Prize.<ref name="RaussenSkau2008">{{cite journal|last1=Raussen|first1=Martin|last2=Skau|first2=Christian|title=Interview with Srinivasa Varadhan|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=55|issue=2|year=2008|pages=238–246}}</ref> In the 1990s and 2000s the theories of [[Schramm–Loewner evolution]]<ref name="HenkelKarevski2012page113">{{cite book|author1=Malte Henkel|author2=Dragi Karevski|title=Conformal Invariance: an Introduction to Loops, Interfaces and Stochastic Loewner Evolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnCQWd0GEZ8C&pg=PA113|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-27933-1|page=113}}</ref> and [[rough paths]]<ref name="FrizVictoir2010page571">{{cite book|author1=Peter K. Friz|author2=Nicolas B. Victoir|title=Multidimensional Stochastic Processes as Rough Paths: Theory and Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVgwLatxfGsC|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-48721-4|page=571}}</ref> were introduced and developed to study stochastic processes and other mathematical objects in probability theory, which respectively resulted in [[Fields Medal]]s being awarded to [[Wendelin Werner]]<ref name="Werner2004Fields">{{cite journal|title=2006 Fields Medals Awarded|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=53|issue=9|year=2015|pages=1041–1044}}</ref> in 2008 and to [[Martin Hairer]] in 2014.<ref name="Hairer2004Fields">{{cite journal|last1=Quastel|first1=Jeremy|title=The Work of the 2014 Fields Medalists|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=62|issue=11|year=2015|pages=1341–1344}}</ref>

Other fields of probability were developed and used to study stochastic processes, with one main approach being the theory of large deviations.<ref name="Meyer2009"/> The theory has many applications in statistical physics, among other fields, and has core ideas going back to at least the 1930s. Later in the 1960s and 1970s fundamental work was done by Alexander Wentzell in the Soviet Union and [[Monroe D. Donsker]] and [[Srinivasa Varadhan]] in the United States of America,<ref name="Ellis1995page98">{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Richard S.|title=An overview of the theory of large deviations and applications to statistical mechanics|journal=Scandinavian Actuarial Journal|volume=1995|issue=1|year=1995|page=98|issn=0346-1238|doi=10.1080/03461238.1995.10413952}}</ref> which would later result in Varadhan winning the 2007 Abel Prize.<ref name="RaussenSkau2008">{{cite journal|last1=Raussen|first1=Martin|last2=Skau|first2=Christian|title=Interview with Srinivasa Varadhan|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=55|issue=2|year=2008|pages=238–246}}</ref> In the 1990s and 2000s the theories of [[Schramm–Loewner evolution]]<ref name="HenkelKarevski2012page113">{{cite book|author1=Malte Henkel|author2=Dragi Karevski|title=Conformal Invariance: an Introduction to Loops, Interfaces and Stochastic Loewner Evolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnCQWd0GEZ8C&pg=PA113|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-27933-1|page=113}}</ref> and [[rough paths]]<ref name="FrizVictoir2010page571">{{cite book|author1=Peter K. Friz|author2=Nicolas B. Victoir|title=Multidimensional Stochastic Processes as Rough Paths: Theory and Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVgwLatxfGsC|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-48721-4|page=571}}</ref> were introduced and developed to study stochastic processes and other mathematical objects in probability theory, which respectively resulted in [[Fields Medal]]s being awarded to [[Wendelin Werner]]<ref name="Werner2004Fields">{{cite journal|title=2006 Fields Medals Awarded|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=53|issue=9|year=2015|pages=1041–1044}}</ref> in 2008 and to [[Martin Hairer]] in 2014.<ref name="Hairer2004Fields">{{cite journal|last1=Quastel|first1=Jeremy|title=The Work of the 2014 Fields Medalists|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=62|issue=11|year=2015|pages=1341–1344}}</ref>

 

The theory of stochastic processes still continues to be a focus of research, with yearly international conferences on the topic of stochastic processes.<ref name="BlathImkeller2011"/><ref name="Applebaum2004page1336"/>

The theory of stochastic processes still continues to be a focus of research, with yearly international conferences on the topic of stochastic processes.<ref name="BlathImkeller2011"/><ref name="Applebaum2004page1336"/>

Category:Stochastic models

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