PROBABILITY, Fall 2001 - Syllabus

• Instructor:
  Daniel Berend
  Office hours: Wed 16-18, (58) 203
  Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
  e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistant:
  Luba Sapir
  Office hours: Sun 15-17 (58) 210
  Tel.: 6477860 (office)
  e-mail: lsapir

• Class hours:
  Section 1: Sun 10-12 (90) 227, Tue 10-12 (90) 326
  Section 2: Mon 14-16 (34) 202, Wed 14-16 (90) 326

• Quiz:
  Section #11: Thu 12-13 (32) 114
  Section #12: Thu 13-14 (32) 114
  Section #13: Sun 14-15 (34) 9
  Section #21: Sun 15-16 (34) 103
  Section #22: Sun 13-14 (34) 209
  Section #23: Thu 14-15 (32) 110

• Midterms: There will be two midterms in the course, on Friday 23/11/01 and on Friday 21/12/01. The weight of each in the final grade will be 20%.

• Homework: The homework grade will be counted as part of the final grade (for students passing the combination of midterms and final exam). The weight of the homework will be pretty significant; its exact value will be decided by the teacher and students together, towards the end of the semester.

• Grades: The grades in the first exam will be curved so as to achieve a final average grade of approximately 64. The grades in the second exam will be curved according to the same curving function as the first exam, irrespective of the grades achieved in the second exam. Changes in this procedure may occur in case of unpredicted developments.

• Bibliography:
  1. W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, Wiley.
  2. S. Ross, A First Course in Probability, 5th ed., Prentice-Hall.
  3. K. Trivedi, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and computer science applications, Prentice-Hall.
  4. E. Merzbach and A. Shimron, Probability Theory, Academon, 1999 (Hebrew).