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Excursions in Programming: The Random Walk
Authors

Richard J. Gaylord
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department: Department of Material Science and Engineering
Paul R. Wellin
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Journal / Anthology

Mathematica in Education
Year: 1994
Volume: 3
Issue: 3
Page range: 42-46
Description

A drunkard's walk, Brownian motion, stock markets, molecule transport--all exhibit behavior that has come to be known as the random walk.
Subject

*Mathematics > Probability and Statistics
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