Understanding Markov Chains: Examples and Applications
暫譯: 理解馬可夫鏈：範例與應用

The author is a professor from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and is well-established in the field of stochastic processes and a highly respected probabilist. He has authored the books, Stochastic Analysis in Discrete and Continuous Settings: With Normal Martingales, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer, 2009, and Discrete Stochastic Processes - Tools for Machine Learning and Data Science, Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series 2024, and was a co-editor for the book, Stochastic Analysis with Financial Applications, Progress in Probability, Vol. 65, Springer Basel, 2011. Aside from these four Springer titles, he has authored several others. The manuscript has been developed over the years from his courses on Stochastic Processes at NTU.

作者是南洋理工大學（NTU）的教授，在隨機過程領域具有深厚的造詣，並且是一位備受尊敬的機率學家。他著有《離散與連續環境中的隨機分析：帶有正態馬丁蓋爾》（Stochastic Analysis in Discrete and Continuous Settings: With Normal Martingales），發表於2009年的《數學講義筆記》（Lecture Notes in Mathematics），以及《離散隨機過程 - 機器學習與數據科學的工具》（Discrete Stochastic Processes - Tools for Machine Learning and Data Science），2024年發表於施普林格本科數學系列（Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series），並且是《具有金融應用的隨機分析》（Stochastic Analysis with Financial Applications）一書的共同編輯，該書於2011年發表於《機率進展》（Progress in Probability）第65卷，施普林格巴塞爾（Springer Basel）。除了這四本施普林格的書籍外，他還著有其他幾本書。該手稿是基於他多年在NTU教授的隨機過程課程所發展而成的。