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Basic texts for physicists are: S. CHANDRASEKHAR, Rev. Mod. Phys. 15, 1 (1943) and M.C. WANG and G.E. UHLENBECK, Rev. Mod. Phys. 17, 323 (1945). (Both are reprinted in: N. WAX, ed., Selected Papers on Noise and Stochastic Processes, Dover, New York, 1954.) The best known textbooks are A.T. BHARUCHA-REID, Elements of the Theory of Markov Processes and Their Application (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960), and W.A. FELLER, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications (two volumes) (Wiley, New York, 1968 and 1971).
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van Kampen, N.G. (1978). An introduction to stochastic processes for physicists. In: Garrido, L., Seglar, P., Shepherd, P.J. (eds) Stochastic Processes in Nonequilibrium Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0016712
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