PROBABILITY for CS, Fall 2012 - Syllabus

• Instructor:
  Daniel Berend
  Office hours: Mon 16:15-18:15, (37 - 213)
  Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
  e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistant:
  Luba Sapir
  Office hours: Tue 13-14, 16-17, (58 - –109)
  e-mail: lsapir@bgu.ac.il

• Class hours:
  
  • Section 1:
    Mon 14-16 (72 - 502)
    Wed 8-10 (90 - 227)

  • Section 2:
    Mon 10-12 (92 - 2)
    Wed 16-18 (34 - 210)
    

• Quiz sections:
  
  11: Tue 10-12 (90 - 123)
  12: Wed 16-18 (72 - 115)
  21: Tue 14-16 (90 - 125)
  22: Wed 18-20 (72 - 115)
  

• Exams: On December 6 we plan to hold a midterm. It will count for 20% of the final grade 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: We recommend that you do at least the problems we list. However, there is no submission of homework.

• 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. U. Lieberman, Introduction to Probability Theory, Dekel, Tel-Aviv, 1980 (Hebrew).
  6. E. Merzbach and A. Shimron, Probability Theory, Academon, Jerusalem, 1994 (Hebrew).