MTH1187 Probability, Winter '00
Meeting: Tuesday, Friday 8 :00 a.m. Wednesday 1:35 p.m. 109 Ryder Hall.
Instructor: Professor Michael Malyutov
Office Hours: Monday 3-4 p.m., Friday 12a.m.- 1 p.m., (and at any other time the office door is open).
Office: 545 Lake, Phone: x5650,
E-mail: MLTV@neu.edu,
Site: http://www.math.neu.edu/faculty/Malioutov
Textbook: "Intro. to Probability", second edition, by C. M. Grinstead and J.L. Snell, AMS, 1998, is in our bookshop. It is also available from
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html
together with many java applets illustrating the material and games related to chance.
Grading:
The grade is 20% homework assigned once a week.
There will be a course-wide final (open book) worth
40% and 2 or 3 in-class exams, the best 2 worth 20% each.
Optimistic Syllabus (some sections may be dropped) and homework assignments:
Chapter 1: 2, 3, 4, 7, 9,16(optional), 31.
Chapter 2: 1a, 2ab, 5(the value of integral will be given), 8acdefg, 12(optional)
Chapter 4.1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13, (optional:15, 16), 21, 27, 32, 43
Chapter4.2: 1abc, 2(value of integrals will be supplied), 4, 5ace
Chapter 5.1: uniform, binomial, geometric, Poisson(optional) 1, 7, 8, 9(optional), 27, 30
Chapter 5.2: uniform, exponential, normal , 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Chapter 6.1: (omitting conditional expectations, martingales) 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 18, 23
Chapter 6.2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, (optional 10),14
Chapter 6.3 and Chapter 8.1: read and discuss
Chapter 8.1: 1, 4, 5
Chapter 9.1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,12