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The term Brownian motion comes from the name of the botanist R. Brown, who described the irregular motion of minute particles suspended in water, while the water itself remained seemingly still. It is now known that this motion is due to the cumulative effect of water molecules hitting the particle at various angles.
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Koralov, L., Sinai, Y.G. (2012). Brownian Motion. In: Theory of Probability and Random Processes. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68829-7_18
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