Math 563 - Probability
Tom Kennedy - Fall 2015
Course home page:
www.math.arizona.edu/~tgk/563_f15/index.html
Instructor:
Tom Kennedy (Professor, Mathematics)
email: tgk@math.arizona.edu
Phone: 626-0197, Office: ENR S318
Office hours:
will be announced in class and
posted on the web.
Text(s):
I did not order an official text through the bookstore.
The semi-official text is A Probability Path by Resnick.
You can get it on-line from the U of A library.
The link for this and a list of other recommended books
can be found
here .
Prerequisites: A course in measure theory and integration, e.g.,
Math 523 or Math 527.
Homework: Homework is the most important part of the course.
The only way to learn mathematics is by doing it.
I will give out homework sets approximately every week and a half.
Exams: There will be a take home midterm and a take home final.
No collaboration is allowed on the take home exams.
Homework collaboration:
Collaboration on homework (not the take home exams)
is encouraged, provided it is really collaboration and not simply
reproduction. To make this more precise, the rule is as follows.
You should have worked seriously on the problem before you discuss it
with others. You may then talk to each other about the problem, but anything
you write down while you are talking should be thrown away or erased
at the end of the conversation. In other words it is not fair to
take notes while you talk to someone else and then use them to
write up the solution. Feel free to ask me for hints on the homework.
Due dates:
Homework sets will have a due date. I will accept it up
to a week after that date, but with a 10% penalty. I will not accept it
after that. Due dates for the take home exams are absolute; no late
papers will be accepted.
Exceptions to this policy will be made in the case of serious illness.
Grades: The course grade will be determined using the weighting:
- Midterm 20%
- Final 20%
- Homework 60%
Incompletes: I will follow the University and Departmental
policies on incompletes. The only scenario I can imagine in this course
that would lead to an incomplete is if a student is sick during the
week of the take home final.