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What does Brownian mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to botanist Robert Brown (1773-1858), who investigated the movement of pollen suspended in water.
    1. (physics) Pertaining to motion caused by the random vibration of molecules (Brownian motion).
  2. Of or relating to Capability Brown (Lancelot Brown, 1716?–1783), English landscape architect.
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Markets are, in the short run, a random walk, right up there with Brownian motion of molecules in a coffee cup.
Much later Donsker gave a full proof of the convergence of random walks to Brownian motion.
To do this we will use Brownian motion to model the evolution of Player A's chance of winning.
We shall look at the asymptotics of the barycentres of independent copies of Brownian motions on the hyperbolic spaces.
It had become an experimental fact that both solutes and Brownian emulsions obey the gas laws.
In the lower left portion of the canvas, a gaggle of geese moves about in Brownian motion.

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