PROBABILITY for CS, Fall 2011 - Syllabus

• Instructors:
  
  • Sergey Gredeskul
    Office hours: Thu 14-16, (54) 312
    Tel.: 6461763 (office), 9925721 (home)
    e-mail: sergeyg@bgu.ac.il
    

  • Daniel Berend
    Office hours: Sun 12-14, (37) 213
    Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
    e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistant:
  
  • Luba Sapir
    Office hours: Mon 15-16, Thu 8-9, (58) -109
    e-mail: lsapir@bgu.ac.il

  • Class hours:
    
    • Section 1:
      Wed 8-10 (34 - 2)
      Thu 9-11 (32 - 306)

    • Section 2:
      Mon 10-12 (26 - 6)
      Wed 12-14 (26 - 6)
      

  • Quiz sections:
    
    11: Mon 16-18 (90 - 238)
    12: Wed 16-18 (90 - 125)
    21: Mon 12-14 (90 - 123)
    22: Mon 18-20 (90 - 123)
    

  • Exams: On December 30 we plan to hold a midterm. Its weight will be 20% of the total exams weight if the grade is higher than that of the final exam and 10% otherwise. The final will count for the other 80% or 90%, respectively.

  • Homework: For students whose exams grade is at least 56, the homework will count for 15% of the course grade if the homework grade is higher than the exams grade and for 10% otherwise. For students whose exams grade is less than 56, the homework will not count.

  • 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).