PROBABILITY, Fall 2003 - Syllabus

• Instructor:
  Daniel Berend
  Office hours: Thu 10-12, (58) 203
  Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
  e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistant:
  Nimrod Kriger
  Office hours: Sun 14-16 (58) -120
  e-mail: kriger

• Class hours:
  Tue 10-12 (34) 216
  Thu 8-10 (28) 302
  

• Quiz:
  Section #11: Thu 16-18 (90) 138
  Section #12: Thu 14-16 (90) 241
  

• Midterm: The midterm will be held on Friday 12/12/03. Its weight will be 20% if the grade is higher than the final exam grade and 15% otherwise.

• Homework: The homework will not be part of the grade, but students are urged to solve as many problems as they can.

• 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).