Math 4800/5080, Probability Theory - FALL 2024

Instructor: Vahan Huroyan

Email: vahan (dot) huroyan (at) slu (dot) edu

Section Time: MWF 15:10 - 16:00

Section Room: Ritter Hall, 323

Office Hours: Ritter Hall 113:

Course Syllabus: [here]

Textbook: Introduction to Probability, Second Eddition, by Jessica Hwang and Joseph K. Blitzstein.

Extra Reading: Introduction to Probability, by David F. Anderson, Benedek Valkó, Timo Seppäläinen.


Announcements:

  • Lecture 1, Aug. 21: Sample spaces, set theory overview (Section 1.2)
  • Lecture 2, Aug. 23: Counting (Section 1.3)
  • Lecture 3, Aug. 26: Counting (Section 1.4)
  • Lecture 4, Aug. 28: Probability spaces, probability function (Sections 1.6)
  • Lecture 5, Aug. 30 : Properties of probability, inclusion exclusion theorem (Section 1.6)
  • Lecture 6, Sep. 4: Conditional probability (Section 2.2)
  • Lecture 7, Sep. 6: Conditional probability, examples (Section 2.2)
  • Lecture 8, Sep. 9: Bayes' rule, the low of total probability (Sections 2.3, 2.5)
  • Lecture 9, Sep. 11: Independence of events (Section 2.5)
  • Lecture 10, Sep. 13: Examples, conditional independence (Section 2.5)
  • Lecture 11, Sep. 16: Independence of a collection of events, examples (Section 2.7)

  • Homework:

  • HW 1: posted 09/02, due 09/13 ----