Kai Lai Chung(钟开莱,1917-2009) 华裔数学家、概率学家。1936年考入清华大学物理系,1940年毕业于西南联合大学数学系,之后任西南联合大学数学系助教。1944年考取第六届庚子赔款公费留美奖学金。1945年底赴美国留学,1947年获普林斯顿大学博士学位。20世纪50年代任教于美国纽约州Syracuse大学,60年代以后任斯坦福大学数学系教授、系主任、名誉教授。钟开莱著有十余部专著,为世界公认的20世纪后半叶“概率学界学术教父”。
目录
Preface to the third edition Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition 1 Distribution function 1.1 Monotone functions 1.2 Distribution functions 1.3 Absolutely continuous and singular distributions 2 Measure theory 2.1 Classes of sets 2.2 Probability measures and their distribution function 3 Random variable, Expectation.Independence 3.1 General definition 3.2 Properties of mathematical expectation 3.3 Independence 4 Convergence concepts 4.1 Various modes of convergence 4.2 Almost sure convergence; Borel-Cantelli lemma 4.3 Vague convergence 4.4 Continuation 4.5 Uniform untegrability; convergence of moments 5 Law of large numbers, Randrom series 5.1 Simple limit theorems 5.2 Weak low of large nymbers 5.3 Convergence of serices 5.4 Strong law of large numbers 5.5 Applications Bibliographical Note 6 Characteristic function 6.1 General properties; convolutions 6.2 Uniqueness and inversion 6.3 Convergence theorems 6.4 Simple applications 6.5 Representation theorems 6.6 Multidimentstional case; Laplace transforms Bibliographical Note 7 Central limit theorem and its ramifications 7.1 Liapounov's theorem 7.2 Lindeberg-Feller theorem 7.3 Ramifications of the central limit theorem 7.4 Error estimation 7.5 Law of the iterated logarithm 7.6 Infinite divistibility Bibliographical Note 8 Random walk 8.1 Zero-or-one laws 8.2 Basic notions 8.3 Recurrence 8.4 Fine structure 8.5 Continuation Bibliographical Note 9 Conditioning.Markov property. Martingale 9.1 Basic properties of conditional expectation 9.2 Conditional independence; Markov propery 9.3 Basci properties of smartingales 9.4 Inequalities and convergence 9.5 Applications Bibliographical Note Supplement: Measure and Integral 1 Construvtion of measure 2 Characterization of extensions 3 Measures in R 4 Integral 5 Applications General Bibliography Index