PROBABILITY for CS, Fall 2013 - Syllabus
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Instructors:
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Daniel Berend
Office hours: Sun 12:00-14:00, (37, 213)
Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
e-mail: berend
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Luba Sapir
Office hours: Tue 10-12 (58, –120)
e-mail: lsapir@bgu.ac.il
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Teaching assistants:
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Mark Shehter
Office hours: Thu 8-10 (58, –120)
Tel.: 050-3456159
e-mail: shemark@tcb.ac.il
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Tatiana Yashuk
Office hours: Wed 14-15 and 17-18 (26, 211)
Tel.: 054-7882804
e-mail: kaufmant@post.bgu.ac.il
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Class hours:
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Section 1:
Mon 16-18 (35, 115)
Wed 8-10 (90, 227)
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Section 2:
Mon 10-12 (92, 002)
Wed 16-18 (34, 210)
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Quiz sections:
11: Tue 10-12 (90, 123)
12: Mon 8-10 (90, 139)
13: Mon 10-12 (90, 140)
21: Tue 14-16 (90, 125)
22: Wed 18-20 (72, 115)
23: Mon 12-14 (32, 207)
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Exams: On December 20 we plan to hold a midterm.
It will count for 20% of the final grade if the grade is higher than
that of the final exam and 10% otherwise. The final will count for the
other 80% or 90%, respectively.
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Homework:
We recommend that you do at least the problems we list.
However, there is no submission of homework.
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Bibliography:
1. W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its
Applications, 3rd ed., Vol. 1, Wiley, New York, 1968.
2. S. Ross, A First Course in Probability, 8th ed.,
Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2006.
3. K. Trivedi, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing,
and Computer Science Applications, 2nd ed., Wiley, New
York, 2002.
4. B. V. Gnedenko, The Theory of Probability, 6th ed.,
Gordon and Breach. (There is a Russian original
also.)
5. M. Harchol-Balter, Performance Modeling and Design of Computer
Systems: Queueing Theory in Action, 1st ed., Cambridge University
Press, New York, 2013.
6. U. Lieberman, Introduction to Probability Theory,
Dekel, Tel-Aviv, 1980
(Hebrew).
7. E. Merzbach and A. Shimron, Probability Theory,
Academon, Jerusalem, 1994 (Hebrew).