CAMBRIDGE, England â British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.
Brownian movement. n. 1. (General Physics) random movement of microscopic particles suspended in a fluid, caused by bombardment of the particles by molecules of the fluid. First observed in 1827, it provided strong evidence in support of the kinetic theory of molecules.
Brownian Motion as a Limit of Random Walks. One of the many reasons that Brow-. nian motion is important in probability theory is that it is, in a certain sense, a limit of. rescaled simple random walks. Let Ë. 1;Ë. 2;::: be a sequence of independent, identically.