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For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. Introduction to stochastic processes lecture notes with 33 illustrations gordan zitkovic department of mathematics the university of texas at austin. Ross, introduction to probability models, 2003, academic press. Discrete and continuous time markov chains, poisson processes, random walks, branching processes, first passage times, recurrence and transience, stationary distributions.