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:
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.