PROBABILITY, Fall 2008 - Syllabus

• Instructor:
  
  • Daniel Berend
    Office hours: Wed 14-16, (37) 213
    Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
    e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistants:
  
  • Irena Lerman
    Office hours: Tue 16-18, (58) 318
    Tel.: 6477830 (office)
    e-mail: lerman

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

• Class hours:
  
  • Section 1:
    Sun 18-20 (90 - 230)
    Wed 16-18 (34 - 210)

  • Section 2:
    Sun 12-14 (34 - 210)
    Wed 8-10 (34 - 102)
    

• Quiz sections:
  
  11: Sun 14-16 (32 - 108)
  12: Thu 8-10 (32 - 309)
  13: Tue 14-16 (90 - 223)
  21: Wed 16-18 (72 - 218)
  22: Thu 8-10 (32 - 108)
  23: Tue 14-16 (90 - 225)

• Homework: There will be no homework grading in the course (unless a grader is found).

• Exams: On Decemeber 19 and February 16 we shall hold midterms. The weight of the first midterm will be 20% if it is higher than the grade of the final exam and 10% otherwise. The weight of the second midterm will be 20% if it is higher than the grade of the final exam and 0% otherwise.

• Bibliography:
  1. W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, 3rd ed., Vol. 1, Wiley, New York, 1968.
  2. S. Ross, A First Course in Probability, 7th ed., Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2006.
  3. K. Trivedi, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications, 2nd ed., Wiley, New York, 2002.
  4. B. V. Gnedenko, The Theory of Probability, 6th ed., Gordon and Breach. (There is a Russian original also.)
  5. A. Dvoretzky, Introduction to Probability Theory, Academon, Jerusalem, 1958 (Hebrew).
  6. E. Merzbach and A. Shimron, Probability Theory, Academon, Jerusalem, 1994 (Hebrew).