Stochastic Differential Equations and Diffusion Processes

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LESSON ONE: VAMPIRESQUIZWHAT'S THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION WHEN A PERT CLASSMATE ATTEMPTS TO SNACK ON YOUR JUGULAR?a. Run for your life and the sanctity of your soulb. Invite her out for a strawberry soda, heavy on the syrupc. Scream like a boy and hide in the principal's officed. Let her have a few sips while you check out her spectacular quadriceps

QUIZHAVING A WITCH FOR A CLASSMATE CAN CREATE A VEXING HEXING SITUATION IF SHE…a. casts spells stirring up all manner ofmischief just to get attention.b. has no qualms about using magic to break up you and your girlfriend.c. becomes the target of a reptilian witchphobic hate group.d. all of the above.

Average human teenage boy Tsukune accidentally enrolls at a boarding school for monsters--no, not jocks and popular kids, but bona fide werewolves, witches, and unnameables out of his wildest nightmares!On the plus side, all the girls have a monster crush on him. On the negative side, all the boys are so jealous they want to kill him! And so do the girls he spurns because he only has eyes for one of them--the far-from-average vampire Moka.On the plus side, Moka only has glo...

QUIZWHEN FIGHTING A TROLL WHO WANTS TO BE BIG MAN ON CAMPUS...a. hide under a bridge--that's the last place he'd lookb. if you've recently received an unsolicited infusion of vampire blood, fight back--since you've probably been transformed into a powerful vampire for all eternityc. let the rude vampire girl who infused you with her vampire hemoglobin--without your permission--lend you a fang

To get in touch with your inner ghoul...a. go shoppingb. cuddle a teddy bearc. brains...brains...

QUIZWHEN A LITERAL FROST QUEEN FALLS FOR YOU LIKE AN ICICLE OFF THE EAVES OF AN ALPINE CHALET, IT'S BEST TO TAKE...a. a snowdayb. a chill pillc. the heat off of her

When magical warming strikes Yokai Academy, you had better...a. reduce your supernatural footprintb. hightail it to snow-fairy countryc. deny that monster activity has anything to do with it

When a supernatural clan of gangsters makes you an offer you can't refuse...a. refuseb. gang up on themc. take the Rosario (off)

QUIZUPON TAKING A FIELD TRIP TO THE HUMAN WORLD AND OBSERVING HUMAN SPAWN BEING PREYED UPON BY CARNIVOROUS PLANTS...a. let them eat the kids--after all, it's not like they're inhumanb. save them and form an alliance to save the environmentc. harvest yourself a lively salad

QUIZWHEN TWO OF YOUR MONSTER FRIENDS' MOTHERS MISTAKE YOU FOR THEIR PRECIOUS DAUGHTER'S BOYFRIEND, ACT LIKE...a. the perfect monster-in-law to beb. you love to play the fieldc. you never met them before in your life