A Review of Probability Distributions and Their Properties; Definition and Characteristics of a Stochastic Process; Some Important Classes of Stochastic Processes; Stationary Processes; The Brownian Motion and the Poisson Process, Levy Processes; Renewal Processes and Random Walks; Martingales in Discrete Time; Branching Processes; Regenerative Phenomena; Markov Chains; Tauberian Theorems.