MATH 3355-2

PROBABILITY

Tuesday and Thursday at noon to 1:20

in Lockett 0112

TEXTBOOK

 

S. Ghahramani

Fundamentals of Probability with Stochastic Processes. Third edition

 

INSTRUCTOR

Gestur Olafsson

Office

322 Lockett

Office Hours

Tuesday, 1:30-2:30 and Thursday, 2:00-3:00 and by request. Questions can be submitted via email.

Phone

578-1608

e-mail

olafsson "at" math.lsu.edu

Internet

http://math.lsu.edu/~olafsson

  SYLLABUS

The course will cover most of the material from chapters 1 to 11. We will need to cover around 2 sections per class meeting. Not all chapters are equally important and the most important material is in the last few chapters. We will therefore spend relatively short time on the first two chapter. But we urge all students to read the book and look carefully at the examples in the book.

The planned list of sections, but subject to changes, is:

Homework:

Homework is done using WebWork. The new set of homework will usually be opened after the Thursday class and you will have one week to finish the problems. You can get to the WebWork page by clicking http://webwork.math.lsu.edu

. . The internet address is http://math.lsu.edu/webwork2. Your login name is your myLSU login name and your password is initially set to the first two characters of your login name followed by the last four digits of the 89 ID number.

The first assignment, Assignment0, does not contribute to your grade, is just for you to become familiar with WebWork. It will open at the beginning of class.

There will be in-class quizzes. Homework and quizzes will count 30% of the final grade.

The course has a grader. His name is Jiayu Zhai and his email is jzhai1 "at" tigers.lsu.edu. You can contact him if have questions about gradings.

Tests:

There will be three in-class exams and a final. Each of the in-class exams will count 15% toward the final grade and the final will count 25%. The dates for the exams are:



Grading and grading scale:


The grading scale is: