Math 3160 Section 4, F 10

Meeting

MWF 11-11:50, MSB M303.

Instructor

Iddo Ben-Ari, first.last@uconn.edu.
Feel free to email me anytime.

Office and hours: MSB M416, W 12:00-12:50, F 1:00-1:50, or by appointment.
Phone: (860)486-8388 (no voicemail).

Material

Textbook
Elementary Probability for Applications by Rick Durrett, Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 0521867568.
We will will cover chapters: 1,2,3,5,6 and may cover chapter 7, time permitting.

Additional reading
A first Course in Probability by Sheldon Ross (current edition is 8th).
Probability with Martingales by David Williams (more advanced).
Prof. Bass' lecture notes.
Basic Probability Theory by Robert Ash (free book).

Grading

10% HW, 7 total, lowest 2 dropped, posted every other week, starting from second week.
25% Midterm I, Friday October 1, 11-11:50 (lecture).
25% Midterm II, Friday November 12, 11-11:50 (lecture).
40% Final, Wednesday December 15, 10:30-12:30 (tentative finals list from registrar's office).

Letter conversion of accumulated grade
A's are for 90% and higher, B's are for 80% and higer, etc., F is for less than 60%.
Grade modifiers: 95% > A- >= 90% > B+ >= 87% > B >= 83% > B- >= 80%, etc.