Hi I find the above expression a bit confusing. I am considering buying a book and it says that it's a rigorous but non-technical introduction to optimal stochastic control. Could someone explain ? Is the book on Brownian Motion and stochastic calculus by Shereve technical and rigorous but the texts by Oksendal non-technical?
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1I’d say: A rigorous book states all claims clearly and gives careful proofs considering all important points. A non-rigorous book might only explain ideas, omit details in proof or use arguments appealing to imagination, common sense or faith. A technical book might use very specific language to state and prove its theorems involving strange or very local definitions, giving little hope of understanding a deeper meaning of them. A non-technical book makes rather short and clear statements and proofs, conceptual and (possibly) abstract in nature. – k.stm Jan 23 '15 at 20:44
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1I think technical means that you cannot get much information out of it, except the main result. (There are no 'new' and 'elegant' techniques) whereas rigorous means that everything is detailed enough without any 'gaps'. – flawr Jan 23 '15 at 20:45
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@k.stm My idea was that technical meant something which was rigorous and convoluted . Our professor sometimes does not prove certain results saying its technical , and really pissed me off during the class and I wanted to see all the proofs possible of the things we learned. Thank you guys – user3503589 Jan 24 '15 at 12:48