Text (required):
C.M. Grinstead and J.L. Snell,
Introduction to Probability, 2nd Edition. AMS.
This syllabus is tentative. It will be superseded by later versions as the course evolves. (Jan. 13, 2013 version)
| # | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment Due |
| 1 | 1/9 | Simulation of Discrete Probabilities | Section 1.1 | 1.1: 1, 3, 9, 10, 15; recommended: 1.1: 4, 12, 17 |
| 2 | 1/11 | CANCELLED | ||
| 3 | 1/14 | Discrete Probability Distributions | Section 1.2 | 1.2: 1, 6, 7, 14, 18, 28; recommended: 1.2: 2, 3, 13, 15, 17, 21, 24 |
| 4 | 1/16 | Continuous Probability Densities | Sections 2.1 and 2.2 | 2.2: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 18 |
| 5 | 1/18 | Continuous Probability Densities | Sections 2.1 and 2.2 | 2.1: 6 and 2.2: 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14 |
| 6 | 1/23 | Permutations | Section 3.1 | 3.1: 3, 7, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, recommended: 3.1: 9, 22 |
| 7 | 1/25 | Combinations | Section 3.2 | 3.2: 3, 7, 15, 26, 29 recommended: 3.2:9, 20 |
| 8 | 1/28 | Card Shuffling | Section 3.3 | 3.3: 1, 2 |
| 9 | 1/30 | Card Shuffling | Section 3.3 | 3.3: 3, 4, 5 |
| 10 | 2/1 | In-class Midterm 1 solutions |
Chapters 1, 2, and 3 | |
| 11 | 2/4 | Special Lecture: Percolation | take-home Midterm 1 | |
| 12 | 2/6 | Discrete Conditional Probability | Section 4.1 | 4.1:1,2,12, 40, 41, 42, 44 recommended: 11, 20 |
| 13 | 2/8 | Continuous Conditional Probability | Section 4.2 | 4.1: 16, 27 4.2: 2, 8, 10, 11, 14 note: we did #10. What does it have to do with conditional probability? |
| 14 | 2/11 | Paradoxes | Section 4.3 | 4.3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Project Proposal due |
| 15 | 2/13 | |||
| 16 | 2/15 | |||
| 17 | 2/18 | Project Description due | 18 | 2/20 |
| 19 | 2/22 | 20 | 2/25 | In-class Midterm 2 |
| 21 | 2/27 | Special Lecture | take-home Midterm 2 | |
| 22 | 3/1 | |||
| 23 | 3/4 | |||
| 24 | 3/6 | PROJECT DRAFT DUE | ||
| 25 | 3/8 | |||
| 26 | 3/11 | |||
| 27 | 3/13 | |||
| 28 | 3/15 | |||
| Final Exam | Covers Chapters: |