PROBABILITY, Fall 2010 - Syllabus

• Instructor:
  
  • Daniel Berend
    Office hours: Sun 16-18, (37) 213
    Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
    e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistant:
  
  • Luba Sapir
    Office hours: Sun 16-18, (58) -109
    e-mail: lsapir@bgu.ac.il

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

    • Section 2:
      Sun 12-14 (34 - 202)
      Wed 8-10 (34 - 102)
      

  • Quiz sections:
    
    11: Sun 14-16 (90 - 125)
    12: Thu 8-10 (72 - 115)
    21: Sun 18-20 (90 - 238)
    22: Mon 8-10 (90 - 223)
    

  • Homework: The homework will count for 15% of the course grade for students whose homework grade is higher than their exams grade (and whose exams grade is at least 56) and for 10% otherwise.

  • Exams: On December 10 we plan to 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, 8th 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).