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This book offers a platform for dissemination of new ideas in visual mathematics and cyberlearning. It addresses new developments and in the field and evokes new theoretical perspectives in mathemati
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A long time ago I started writing a book about Markov chains, Brownian motion, and diffusion. I soon had two hundred pages of manuscript and my publisher was enthusiastic. Some years and several draft
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