2025 Fall Course Syllabus - Mathematics 3031.001

Probability Theory I

3

In person.

MWF 11:00-11:50AM.

Wachman 00015

Wachman 534

215-983-3816

MWF 2:00-3:00PM.

Introduction to Probability (Cambridge University Press; 1 edition, November 2, 2017) by Anderson, Seppalainen, and Valko, ISBN-13: 978-1108415859.

Homework: 3%; Quizzes: 12%; Midterm 1: 25%; Midterm 2: 25%; Final: 35%. NO MAKE UP QUIZ or ADDITIONAL QUIZ can be given under any circumstances (including illness). However, lowest quiz score will be dropped. In other words, you may miss at most one quiz without hurting your grade. Correspondence between the numerical and letter grades: 93-100 A, 90-92 A-, 87-89 B+, 83-86 B, 80-82 B-, 77-79 C+, 73-76 C, 68-72 C-, 65-67 D+, 55-64 D, 50-54 D-, 0-49 F.

Calculus II.

Students will learn basics of probability theory and develop technical skills to perform calculations.

Discrete and continuous random variables, independence and conditional probability, probability distributions for one or several random variables, expected value and variance, moment generating functions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, Poisson processes, conditional expectation.

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