MATH 343:01 SYLLABUS
Probability Theory
Summer 2003 term
- Instructor: Kemal Gursoy.
- Office: TB 225
- Office phone: X-1951
- Office hours: Wednesday
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., or by appointment.
- e-mail: gursoyk@boun.edu.tr
- Classes: Monday to
Thursday; 3:00 pm to 4:50 pm, Room: M2152.
- Problem Session: 11:00 am
to 1:00 pm, Thursday; Room M2230, Friday; Room M1170
- Graduate assistant: Emek On
- Office Hours: Thu 1:00–3:00
pm, Fri 1:00–4:00 pm
- Office: TB 265 (1954)
- e-mail: theemek@hotmail.com
Recommended Book:
- A First Course in
Probability by Sheldon Ross.
You
can see your papers 8 aug Friday, 13:00 at TB265
Final Grades: grades
Assignments (from the book, to be solved in
P.S.):
1st week: ch 1.1,10,31; ch 2.8,23,25,52;
ch 3.2,6,13; ch 4.40,46
2nd week: ch 2.39,42,47; ch
3.24,39,44,59,73; ch 4.22,43,44,48,50,51,52,58,59,60,64,67,70; ch
5.10,11,15,16,24,25,27,37,40
3rd week: ch 5.32,33; ch
6.8,20,27,32,33,42,51 ch 7.1,3,8,16,17
4th week: ch 7.36,37,64,65,67,70 &
theo.ex.49,50
5th week: ch 9.1,4,5,6
The course grade will be based on several quizzes, a midterm examination
and a comprehensive final examination with the following weights.
- Quizzes are 15%,
- Midterm examination is 35%,
- Final examination is 50%.
Responsibilities:
- Cheating in any form will
not be accepted (no plagiarism) and its consequence will be an
"F" grade.
- Only a well documented
emergency, by a doctor or a clinic, is a valid excuse to take a make-up
examination.
- There will be no form of
work for extra credit, so that everyone will be judged according to a
common criterion.
- Regular attendance is
required.
- All sources of noise such
as cellular phones, beepers, etc. should be turned off before entering the
classroom.
Tentative Calendar
Note: The described procedures and the calendar for this course are subject
to change in the event of extenuating circumstances.
- June 26-July 3: Review of
counting, probability measure, conditional probability.
- July 7-10: Random
variables, probability distribution function.
- July 14-22: Probability
models: Discrete and Continuous random variables.
- July 23: Midterm
Examination.
- July 24: Great
Expectations, moments, moment generating functions.
- July 28-29: Law of Large
Numbers, limit theorems.
- July 30-August 5: Random
Walk, Markov Chains.
- August 7: Final
Examination.
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