I personally need a friendly approach to solving stochastic differential equations with singular...

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13. Oh, I'm not sure I do understand it. There's...

...a fair amount of somewhat "unfriendly" jargon in the text.

The trick is to struggle through and dig through to get what you need.

I may need my son's help with this.

I'm actually not all that smart, but I am persistent. I'm definitely not as smart as my sons, although they may be too young to recognize this yet. They will; they will.

I'm getting old and I want to do as many beautiful things as I can before I die.

The question of bubbles in liquid metals of changing composition is a beautiful thing to think about, at least in a certain frame of mind.

That's how I came across this book. I found the statement about friendliness amusing and posted it here.