Skip to main content
Log in

How K. Itô revolutionized the study of stochastic processes

  • Special Feature: Award of the 1st Gauss Prize to K. Ito
  • Published:
Japanese Journal of Mathematics Aims and scope

Abstract.

The main facts of K. Itô’s stochastic integration as well as excursion theory are presented, together with a number of applications.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

General references to K.Itô’s works

  1. K. Itô, Selected Papers (with an Introduction by D. Stroock and S. Varadlian), Springer, 1987.

  2. N. Ikeda, S.Watanabe, M. Fukushima and H. Kunita (eds.), Itô’s Stochastic Calculus and Probability Theory, Springer, 1996.

  3. P. Salminen, P. Vallois, and M. Yor, On the excursion theory for linear diffusions. Japan. J. Math., 2 (2007), 97–127.

    Google Scholar 

  4. M. Yor, Comment K.Itô a révolutionné l’étude des processus stochastiques. Gaz. Math., 111 (2007), 51-56.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to M. Yor.

Additional information

Communicated by: Toshiyuki Kobayashi

About this article

Cite this article

Yor, M. How K. Itô revolutionized the study of stochastic processes. Jpn. J. Math. 2, 137–143 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11537-007-0713-4

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11537-007-0713-4

Keywords and phrases:

Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):

Navigation