| Prof. |
Glenn Tesler |
| Lecture |
MWF 11:00-11:50 p.m., Center 109 |
| Office hours |
AP&M 5840, (858) 534-5931,
Wednesdays 3-4:50 p.m.
You may also come to the office hours for my other class (Math 20C)
Mondays 3-4:50 p.m., but students from the other class have priority. |
| Website |
http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~gptesler/180a |
| E-mail |
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| T.A. |
Jason Bandlow |
| Section A02 |
Thu. 9-9:50 a.m., HSS 1305 |
| Office hours |
AP&M 2325, Wed. 1-2 p.m. |
| E-mail |
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| T.A. |
Lei Wu |
| Section A03 |
Thu. 7-7:50 p.m., HSS 2154 |
| Section A04 |
Thu. 8-8:50 p.m., HSS 2154 |
| Office hours |
AP&M 5760, Wed. 2-3 p.m. and Thu. 4:30-5:30 p.m. |
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| Textbook |
Jim Pitman, Probability, (c) 1993, Springer-Verlag.
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| Requirements |
Weekly homework, two midterms, one final.
Your composite grade is comprised of homework (15% for all homeworks
combined), two midterms (20% and 25%), and the final (40%).
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| Homework |
Homework will be posted on the class website
and is due in section on Thursday or to the T.A.'s homework box (on the wall
outside AP&M 2325) by Friday at 9 a.m.
It will be normally returned to you in section on Thursday
the following week.
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Please write your name, student ID number,
section number (A01, A02, etc.),
date, and assignment number
at the top of the first page, and staple your pages together.
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If you will regularly
attend a different section than the one you are enrolled in,
please add "return in Section x" with the appropriate section number.
The T.A.'s will permit this at their discretion, to the extent that seats
are available.
- Show your work, and when relevant, circle your final answer.
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You may study with others, but the work you turn in should be your own;
do not just copy someone else's answer.
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Late homeworks will not be accepted.
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You are strongly advised to attend section. If you will miss
section, you should send it to section with a friend or submit
it early to your T.A.
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| Exams |
The rules and material covered on each exam will be
announced a week in advance. The dates are as follows:
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| Academic integrity |
Cheating will not be tolerated. See the
"UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship" published in the
UCSD
General Catalog.
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| Math Add/Drop |
The Mathematics Department operates its own
Add/Drop Center
in AP&M 2420A,
weekdays September 22-30 at 9 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m.,
and October 3-7 at 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Hours are subject to change.
Use it to change sections, add or drop math
classes, check your waiting list status, etc.
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| Homework # |
Due 9 a.m. Friday |
Assignment |
| 1 |
Sep. 30 |
1.1# 2, 3, 5, 7, 8
1.3# 2, 4, 5
Answer key (PDF)
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| 2 |
Oct. 7 |
1.3# 6, 9, 10
1.4# 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
1.5# 1, 4, 5
1.6# 8
Answer key (PDF)
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| 3 |
Oct. 14 |
1.6# 2, 3
2.1# 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 13
2.2# 2, 4, 12
Appendix 1 (pp. 513-514)# (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv).
In (xiv), "all" should be "only".
Answer key (PDF)
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| 4 |
Oct. 21 |
2.5# 1, 3, 4, 7, 8
3.1# 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 15, 22, 23
Answer key (PDF)
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| 5 |
Oct. 28 |
Appendix 1 (p. 514)# (x)
3.2# 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 17
3.3# 1, 2, 3, 5
Answer key (PDF)
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| 6 |
Nov. 4 |
2.4# 2, 7
(typo in 2.4.7.: X should be S)
3.3# 14, 17, 22
3.4# 1, 2, 4, 6
3.5# 3, 8, 10, 11
Answer key (PDF)
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Nov. 11 |
Veterans Day, homework will be combined with next week's assignment
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| 7 |
Nov. 18 |
1.6# 5, H-1 (see below)
4.1# 3, 6, 11, 13, 15(bc)
4.2# 3, 6, 7, 13 This section is postponed.
4.4# 3, 5, 10
4.5# 2, 4, 5, 7, H-2
H-1: On Mars there are 669 Martian solar days in a year.
At what number of Martians is there a 60% chance that at least two
share a birthday? (Formulas are on p. 64 and the Nov. 2 class
handout.)
H-2: Use the cdf in 4.5#2(a) to compute
(i) P(0≤X≤2)
(ii) P(0≤X<2)
(iii) P(e<X≤π)
(Of course it is easy to do this w/o the cdf, but please show how
to do it with the cdf.)
Answer key (PDF)
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Nov. 25 |
Thanksgiving, homework will be combined with next week's assignment
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Dec. 2 |
4.2# 3, 6, 7, 13
5.1# 2, 4bc, 5, 7
(in 5.1.7, replace all lowercase x's by t to avoid confusion with random variable X)
5.2# 2, 3, 11, 16, 17a, H-3
5.3# 2, 3
5.4# 9, 11
6.3# 2
H-3: In 5.2.3, compute (d) P(X≤a,Y≤b) with 0<a<1 and 0<b<1; (e) E(X+Y)
Answer key (PDF)
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