A history of random processes

@ClarkeMicah @VaccineUK Current OED gives three definitions for 'stochastic', the second of which is the definition connected to stochastic processes; term first used explicitly in 1917 by L. von Bortkiewicz, but goes back to 1828 and the experiments of R

@ClarkeMicah Formal study of stochastic processes began over 100yrs ago Bachelier, Poincaré, Einstein, Smoluchowski et al; experimentally goes back to 1828 Robert Brown viz. Brownian motion https://t.co/zqnvV29j7W not been "revived in a new age of imprec