The final course grades are in. You can email me or see me (no later than Dec. 22) to learn your final exam grade.
Time & Place: Monday 6:15--8:45, Burchard 118.
Lecturer: Marco Lenci. (Office: Kidde 219B. Tel.: x-5453. E-mail: mlenci@math.stevens.edu)
Office hours: The official office hours are posted here, but students are welcome to meet me at other times as well (by appointment).
K. L. Chung, A course in probability theory, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968
is very easy but perhaps too elementary;
A. F. Karr, Probability, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
seems rather good, but I don't it know it very well. As for heftier and more complete references,
P. Billingsley, Probability and Measure, Wiley,
1986.
W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and
Its Applications, Vol. 1, Wiley, 1968
A. N. Shiryayev (sometimes spelled Shiriaev),
Probability, Springer-Verlag, 1984.
There will be two types of homework in this class: occasional homework given while lecturing, and officially assigned homework. The first type can be worked out by the student at his/her discretion and possibly given to me for comments. The second type will consist of two homework sheets, each containing a short list of problems, given at two different times during the semester. These will have a due date and will be graded, the grade counting in (small) part towards the class grade.
Also, there will a midterm exam and a final exam, whose dates we will agree on during the semester.
Both the official homework and the exams will receive letter grades, to emphasize that the final grade for the class will depend more on the progress shown by the student than on his or her average (not that this should give anybody license to flunk an exam!).
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