• Click here for a copy of the syllabus.

• I thought I would start by mentioning to you a few interesting links: first, click here for some advice for those planning on attending grad school in mathematics; second, here is an interesting video about how ``algorithms shape our world''; third, here is an inspiring little film about the mathematician Julia Robinson; here is an amusing little TEDxObserver talk by Cedric Villani; lastly, here is a nice article about how computational complexity, a branch of mathmeatics (and CS), will affect philosophy in coming decades.

Homework 1 (due Wednesday, September 7 at the end of class ):

• Click here for the first part of the first HW.

• Click here for the second part of the first HW.

Homework 2 (due Friday, September 23):

• Click here for an article on drug testing in sports.

• Click here for a summary of a Nature article on the same thing.

• Finally, click here for an article on the misuse of math in court cases.

• Click here for a copy of the first part of HW 2.

• Click here for the second part of HW 2.

Homework 3 (due Monday, October 10):

• Click here for discussion of how the Poisson Distribution comes up in the detection of exoplanets.

• *** I have scheduled your first midterm for Friday, October 7. ***

• Page 66-67, #2.1-2, #2.1-10.

• Page 73-75, #2.2-14.

• Page 87, #2.3-9.

• Page 98, #2.4-13.

• Page 124, #2.6-20.

• Click here for the solution to the terrorist/lie-detector problem.

• *** We will be having a review session for the first midterm Thursday, Oct. 6, 6:00pm, in the classroom. ***

• Click here for a copy of the study sheet for the first midterm.

• Click here for a sample of an old Math 3770 exam, which should look similar to yours (except slightly different material).

Homework 4 (due Friday, November 4).

• Page 151-153, #3.2-1, #3.2-7.

• Page 159-162, #3.3-3.

• Page 169-170, #3.4-1, #3.4-6.

• Page 181-182, #3.5-8.

• Page 206-207, #4.1-1, #4.1-4, #4.1-11.

• In addition to those problems, do THESE .

• Here's that Francis Galton quote I told you about, concerning the Central Limit Theorem: ``I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the law of frequency of error. The law would have been personified by the Greeks if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The larger the mob, the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of unreason.''

• Click HERE for a Symphony-of-Science-type rendition of it.

• And click HERE for an article by Terry Tao on universal laws of statistics, of which the Central Limit Theorem is one of the best-known examples.

• *** Note: I made a slight change to the first problem in the pdf file of the homework (the 2 pi should be pi -- I copied it down wrong out of the book I took it from). ***

Homework 5 (due Wednesday, November 30).

• Click HERE for a pdf file of the HW.

• For a note on confidence intervals and statistical sample, click HERE .

• *** Your second midterm will be Friday, November 18. ***

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• For a note on Maximum Likelihood Estimators, click here .

• *** Note that we will be having a study session this coming Tuesday (Nov. 15) at 7:00pm in the classroom. ***

• Click here for a study sheet for midterm 2.

Click here and here for some notes on Markov chains and processes.

Click here for a classic article on Hidden Markov Models.

Click here for HOMEWORK #6. I will not collect this homework. I am putting it up here for your benefit, to use to study for the final exam.

*** Your final exam is scheduled for Firday, December 16 at 2:50pm. ***

For the final exam, know all the material in the two study sheets above, as well as all the material on hypothesis testing, maximum likelihood estimators, minimum variance estimators. Be able to use all the different pdf's we have encountered. Also, just to remind you: YOU ARE ALLOWED A FORMULA SHEET FOR THE FINAL. This sheet should not include definitions -- only formulas.