A First Glimpse of Stochastic Processes.- A Brief Survey of the Mathematics of Probability Theory.- Diffusion Processes.- Beyond the Central Limit Theorem: L?vy Distributions.- Modeling the Financial Market.- Stable Distributions Revisited.- Hyperspherical Polar Coordinates.- The Weierstrass Random Walk Revisited.- The Exponentially Truncated L?vy Flight.- Put-Call Parity.- Geometric Brownian Motion.