Book Review: Vector measures

to applications to analysis without first computing even one real probability distribution, be it for a passage time, a hitting probability, an occupation time, or some more involved functional.Secondly, the overall tone of the work is already set in the preface as follows: "The great day of the dedicated solitary researcher is over, if indeed it ever existed....In their stead, concern for the human consequences of scientific and technological achievement must become part of our working lives,...Only through organized collective action can this be achieved."This being so, it is easy to imagine why the methods and ideas of a generation of researchers should be presented here in a condensed and transparently clear form, with no suggestion of the effort that must have gone into developing them.Professor Lamperti has indeed done a highly praiseworthy job in providing us with a careful and painless review of stochastic processes.For some readers, however, the work may be a trifle unoriginal.A few more novel calculations, descriptive generalities, or even loose ends, might have alleviated the collective mentality and given the reader more to remember.

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