PROBABILITY, Fall 2009- 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 assistant:
  
  • Luba Sapir
    Office hours: Wen 14-16, (58) -109
    Tel.: I will check (office)
    e-mail: lsapir@bgu.ac.il

  • Class hours:
    
    • Section 1:
      Sun 18-20 (72 - 502)
      Wed 16-18 (72 - 502)

    • Section 2:
      Sun 12-14 (28 - 303)
      Wed 8-10 (28 - 303)
      

  • Quiz sections:
    
    11: Sun 14-16 (90 - 324)
    12: Thu 8-10 (28 - 102)
    21: Wed 16-18 (34 - 205)
    22: Thu 10-12 (24 - 5)

  • Homework: We plan to use a new automatic experimental system for homework. Assuming the system works, the homework will count for 10% of the course grade for students whose homework grade is higher than their exams grade (and whose exams grade is at least 56) and will not count otherwise.

  • Exams: On Decemeber 18 we shall hold a midterm. Its weight will be 20% if the grade is higher than the grade of the final exam and 10% 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).