PROBABILITY, Fall 2007 - Syllabus

• Instructors:
  
  • Michael Lin
    Office hours: Wed 14-16, (58) 209
    Tel.: 6461621
    e-mail: lin
    

  • Daniel Berend
    Office hours: Thu 10-12, (37) 213
    Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
    e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistants:
  
  • Igor Portnov
    Office hours: Tue 13-15, (58) -123
    e-mail: igorp
    Tel.: 054-6848241

  • Natalia Krapivnik
    Office hours: Tue 10-12, (58) 101
    Tel.: 6477847 (office), 050-7828963
    e-mail: mordeev

• Class hours:
  
  • Section 1:
    Sun 18-20 (28 - 303)
    Wed 16-18 (32 - 306)

  • Section 2:
    Sun 12-14 (72 - 486)
    Wed 8-10 (28 - 302
    

• Quiz sections:
  
  11: Sun 14-16 (72 - 214)
  12: Thu 8-10 (32 - 111)
  13: Tue 8-10 (90 - 144)
  21: Tue 12-14 (90 - 243)
  22: Thu 8-10 (32 - 112)
  23: Tue 8-10 (90 - 245)

• Exams: The final exam will be split into two parts. The first will be given (pending on the availability of rooms) a couple of weeks after the end of the first half of the course. The second part will concentrate on the topics taught during the second half of the course. The weight of each will be 50% of the exams grade. The exams given later will be split to different exams for the first and second halves, and students will be allowed to take the exam related to one of the halves only if they so choose. A student who passed the exams, and wants to improve his grade on one of the halves only, may do so.

• Homework: There will be three homework assignments during the first half of the course. The homework will count for 10% of the course grade (for students whose exams grade is at least 56). Each of the assignments submitted during the strike will count for an additional 1% for students whose grade will be thus increased.

• Bibliography:
  1. W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, Vol. 1, Wiley.
  2. S. Ross, A First Course in Probability, 7th ed., Prentice-Hall.
  3. K. Trivedi, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications, Prentice-Hall.
  4. B. V. Gnedenko, The Theory of Probability (Russian original or English translation).
  5. A. Dvoretzky, Introduction to Probability Theory, Academon (Hebrew).
  6. E. Merzbach and A. Shimron, Probability Theory, Academon (Hebrew).