# Contents * the following line creates the automatic table of contents {:toc} ## Idea ## This page is about random processes as a means of modelling in engineering applications and sciences, especially [[climate models]]. Random processes are a broad topic in both pure mathematical research and applications, which we cannot even touch here, but we'll mention some references to the general theory. ## Implementation Issues ## A computer model of a random process needs a [[Random number generator|random number generator]]. Certain random processes are solutions of [[stochastic differential equations]] and can therefore be simulated by numerical solvers of these equations. ## References ## ### General ### * Wikipedia: [Stochastic process](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_process) [[Terence Tao]] has written about measure theory on abstract spaces and random processes, they are part of these online lecture notes: * Terence Tao: [real analysis](http://en.wordpress.com/tag/245a-real-analysis) * Terence Tao: [random matrices](http://en.wordpress.com/tag/254a-random-matrices) ### Probability Theory ### * nLab: [probability theory](http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/probability+theory) [[!redirects Random processes]] [[!redirects random process]] [[!redirects random processes]] [[!redirects stochastic processes]] [[!redirects stochastic process]] category:methodology