Applied Probability

The Seventh Symposium in Applied Mathematics, sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and the Office of Ordnance Research, and devoted to Mathematical Probability and Its Applications, was held at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn on April 14 and 15, 1955. This volume contains the papers (one in abstract form) which were presented at the Symposium.
Prolonged consideration by the members of the Program Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr. H. W. Bode, resulted in the decision that the Symposium should be concerned with three principal themes, viz., The Theory of Diffusion, The Theory of Turbulence, and Probability in Classical and Modern Physics. However, it was the intention of the Committee that these terms should be interpreted broadly and that the speakers should avail themselves of considerable freedom in determining the actual contents of their papers. In particular, it was understood that the term "theory of diffusion" was to be interpreted so as to cover a wide variety of relations between probability and differential equations.
The three themes were dealt with in the order in which they have been mentioned, and the papers appear here in the order in which they were given.