Random walk theory proposes that stock prices move unpredictably, making it impossible to predict future movements based solely on past trends. This financial theory, first popularized by economist ...

Random walks and percolation theory form a fundamental confluence in modern statistical physics and probability theory. Random walks describe the seemingly erratic movement of particles or entities, ...

The random walk theorem, first presented by French mathematician Louis Bachelier in 1900 and then expanded upon by economist Burton Malkiel in his 1973 book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, asserts ...

Juggling competing demands in a network of feverishly calculating computers drawing on the same memory resources is like trying to avert collisions among blindfolded, randomly zigzagging ice skaters.

Princeton University emeritus economist Burton Malkiel, who turns 91 this year, has published a 50th-anniversary edition of his investing classic, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Kim Clark, Kiplinger: ...