Editing Stochastic process (section)

===Statistical mechanics===
In the physical sciences, scientists developed in the 19th century the discipline of [[statistical mechanics]], where physical systems, such as containers filled with gases, are regarded or treated mathematically as collections of many moving particles. Although there were attempts to incorporate randomness into statistical physics by some scientists, such as [[Rudolf Clausius]], most of the work had little or no randomness.<ref name="Truesdell1975page22">{{cite journal|last1=Truesdell|first1=C.|title=Early kinetic theories of gases|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=15|issue=1|year=1975|pages=22–23|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00327232|s2cid=189764116}}</ref><ref name="Brush1967page150">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=Stephen G.|title=Foundations of statistical mechanics 1845?1915|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=4|issue=3|year=1967|pages=150–151|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00412958|s2cid=120059181}}</ref>
This changed in 1859 when [[James Clerk Maxwell]] contributed significantly to the field, more specifically, to the kinetic theory of gases, by presenting work where he modelled the gas particles as moving in random directions at random velocities.<ref name="Truesdell1975page31">{{cite journal|last1=Truesdell|first1=C.|title=Early kinetic theories of gases|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=15|issue=1|year=1975|pages=31–32|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00327232|s2cid=189764116}}</ref><ref name="Brush1958">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=S.G.|title=The development of the kinetic theory of gases IV. Maxwell|journal=Annals of Science|volume=14|issue=4|year=1958|pages=243–255|issn=0003-3790|doi=10.1080/00033795800200147}}</ref> The kinetic theory of gases and statistical physics continued to be developed in the second half of the 19th century, with work done chiefly by Clausius, [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] and [[Josiah Gibbs]], which would later have an influence on [[Albert Einstein]]'s mathematical model for [[Brownian movement]].<ref name="Brush1968page15">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=Stephen G.|title=A history of random processes|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=5|issue=1|year=1968|pages=15–16|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00328110|s2cid=117623580}}</ref>