Stochasticity in Processes

Peter Schuster, born 07.03.1941, received his Ph.D. (sub auspiciis praesidentis) in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Vienna in 1967. His professional career includes: Postdoctoral assistant with Prof. Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Institute of Physical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, 1968-1969, Habilitation in Theoretical Chemistry at the "Universität Wien", 1971, Full professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the "Universität Wien", 1973-2009, Head of the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry at the Universität Wien, 1973-1992 and 1996-2010, External Faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA, 1991-2003 and 2004-2013, and External Professor emeritus of this institute, since 2013, Founding director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Jena, Germany, 1992-1995, Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 1984. He was Vice-President of this academy in the years 2000 - 2003 and President 2006-2009,

Probability.- Distributions, Moments and Statistics.- Stochastic Processes.- Applications in Chemistry.- Applications in Biology.- Perspectives.- References.- Glossary.- Notation.

"This book is a much needed contribution to the foundations of chemistry and biology. Its focus is timely, and it provides its readers with a well-rounded and well-written summary of stochasticity with a view toward chemistry and biology. ... The mathematical prerequisites are kept at the undergraduate level and the book is designed to be as self-contained as possible. Key equestions are derived unless too much mathematical effort would be required." (Clemens F. Heitzinger, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2018)

"There are 585 references, a notation index, an author index and a subject index. The book is extremely well produced. Without any reservation, I do not hesitate to say this is an exceptional piece of work." (Marius Iosifescu, zbMATH 1359.60006, 2017)