Tables of current homework and lecture schedules

Math 210 schedule
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Sept. 6 No class	Sept. 7 No class	Sept. 8 In Lecture: Overview of the course Two person games and the media: Why are so many news stories false? Stategies in two person games Associated Reading: FAPP, Chapter 15.1 Download "How math can save your life" from the Gigapedia web site, using the gigapedia instructions on the main course web page. Then read chapter 2.	Sept. 9 No class	Sept. 10 In Lecture: Mixed strategies in two person games Associated Reading: FAPP, Chapter 15.2
Sept. 13 In Lecture: Mixed strategies in two person games with multiple options The minimax theorem Associated Reading: FAPP, Chapter 15.2 Pages 736-739 of Raghavan's article on zero sum two person games	Sept. 14 No class	Sept. 15 In Lecture: The minimax theorem for multiple options (continued) Associated Reading: FAPP, Chapter 15.2 Pages 736-739 of Raghavan's article on zero sum two person games	Sept. 16 No class	Sept. 17 In Lecture: The minimax theorem for multiple options and linear programming Associated Reading: FAPP, Chapter 15.2 Pages 736-739 of Raghavan's article on zero sum two person games The part of this Wikipedia article on linear programming up to the section titled "Augmented form (slack form)".
Sept. 20 In Lecture: Game theory and linear programming, continued Associated Reading: Pages 736-739 of Raghavan's article on zero sum two person games The part of this Wikipedia article on linear programming up to the section titled "Comparison of interior-point methods versus simplex algorithms".	Sept. 21 No class	Sept. 22 In Lecture: Game theory and linear programming, continued Associated Reading: Pages 736-739 of Raghavan's article on zero sum two person games The part of this Wikipedia article on linear programming up to the section titled "Comparison of interior-point methods versus simplex algorithms".	Sept. 23 No class	Sept. 24 In Lecture: Games with perfect information Associated Reading: Section 2 (pages 43-45) of the article Games with perfect information by Jan Myceileski.
Sept. 27 In Lecture: Partial Conflict Games Associated Reading: Chapter 15.3 of FAPP Chapter 15.4 of FAPP	Sept. 28 No class	Sept. 29 In Lecture: Partial Conflict Games, continued Voting strategies Associated Reading: TBA	Sept. 30 No class	Oct. 1 In Lecture: Voting strategies, continued Associated Reading: Chapter 15.3 of FAPP Chapter 15.4 of FAPP Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)
Oct. 4 In Lecture: Games with more players Truels Associated Reading: Chapter 15.3 of FAPP Chapter 15.4 of FAPP Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Oct. 5 Evening class: 9 p.m., DRL 4C2 Review for the mid-term Associated Reading: Chapter 15 of FAPP Your notes from class Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Oct. 6 In Lecture: Review for the mid-term, continued Associated Reading: Chapter 15 of FAPP Your notes from class Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Oct. 7 No class	Oct. 8 In Lecture: Midt-term You can bring one two sided handwritten page of notes to the exam. Associated Reading: Chapter 15 of FAPP Your notes from class
Oct. 11 In Lecture: No class - spring break!	Oct. 12 In Lecture: No class - spring break!	Oct. 13 In Lecture: Probability theory: Introduction Associated Reading: FAP, Chapters 8.1, 8.2. How math can save your life, p. 47 - 50 Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Oct. 14 No class	Oct. 15 Skype Lecture at 11 a.m.: We will discuss these three videos: Introduction (streaming) Introduction (downloadable) Sample Spaces (streaming)) Sample Spaces (downloadable) Sigma algebras and probabilities (streaming)) Sigma algebras and probabilities (downloadable) Associated Reading: FAP. Chapters, 8.1 - 8.4 Wikipedia on sigma algebras Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Probability and Statistics by: Seymour Lipschutz, Jack Schiller, Jack Schiller, Seymour Lipschutz. (See gigapedia.) Chapter 3.1-3.5.
Oct. 18 In Lecture: Probability spaces, continued Multinomial coefficients Associated Reading: FAP. Chapters, 8.1 - 8.4 Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 1.9 (See gigapedia.) Chapter 3.1-3.5. Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Oct. 19 In Lecture: No class	Oct. 20 In Lecture: Conditional probabiilty Associated Reading: Wolfram on conditional probability Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 2.1 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) - to be posted Video of class (downloadable) - to be posted	Oct. 21 No class	Oct. 22 Skype Lecture at 11 a.m.: about conditional probability Video 1 (streaming) Video 1 (downloadable) Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 2.2 (See gigapedia.)
Oct. 25 In Lecture: Bayes theorem Associated Reading: Wolfram on Bayes Theorem Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 2.2 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Oct. 26 In Lecture: No class	Oct. 27 In Lecture: The Drake equation and conditional probability Random Variables Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 3.1 - 3.3 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Oct. 28 No class	Oct. 29 In Lecture: Random Variables, density functions The Monty Hall problem! - note that this link is "under dispute"! Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 3.1 - 3.3 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)
Nov. 1 In Lecture: Random variables, continued How long should you stay single(?!) Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 2.2 (See gigapedia.) "How math can save your life", page 38 - 41. Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 2 In Lecture: No class	Nov. 3 In Lecture: How long should you stay single, continued Expectations of random variables. Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 3.1 - 3.3, 4.1 and 4.2 (See gigapedia.) Remaking the math curriculum video of a talk by Dan Meyer. Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 4 No class	Nov. 5 In Lecture: Expectation, Mean, Variance and Standard deviation Bernoulli and Binomial distributions Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, chapter 4 and sections 5.1 and 5.2 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)
Nov. 8 In Lecture: Joint Probability density functions Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, chapter 4 and sections 5.1 and 5.2 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 9 In Lecture: No class	Nov. 10 In Lecture: Mean, variance and distribution of sums of independent random variables The central limit theorem Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, chapter 4 and sections 5.1, 5.2 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 11 No class	Nov. 12 In Lecture: The central limit theorem (continued) Poisson distributions Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, chapter 4 and sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)
Nov. 15 In Lecture: Poisson distributions Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 5.4 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 16 In Lecture: No class	Nov. 17 In Lecture: Continued fractions Associated Reading: Wolfram on continued fractions (More concise then Wikipedia) Wikipedia on continued fractions "Elementary Theory of Numbers" by William J. LeVeque, chapter 5. This is available on gigapedia, and gives a rigorous treatment of the subject. Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 18 No class	Nov. 19 In Lecture: Continued fractions (continued....) Associated Reading: Wolfram on continued fractions (More concise then Wikipedia) Wikipedia on continued fractions "Elementary Theory of Numbers" by William J. LeVeque, chapter 5. This is available on gigapedia, and gives a rigorous treatment of the subject. Video of class (streaming) - to be posted Video of class (downloadable)
Nov. 22 In Lecture: Continued fractions (continued) Associated Reading: Wolfram on continued fractions (More concise then Wikipedia) Wikipedia on continued fractions "Elementary Theory of Numbers" by William J. LeVeque, chapter 5. This is available on gigapedia, and gives a rigorous treatment of the subject. Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 23 In Lecture: No class	Nov. 24 In Lecture: Stochastic and Markov Processes Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 5.4 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Nov. 25 No class	Nov. 26 In Lecture: No class - Thanksgiving Break!
Nov. 29 In Lecture: How sounds are generated and heard The wave equation Associated Reading: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 9th Edition by: Erwin Kreyszig (gigapedia) Vibrating Strings, section 12.2 - 12.4 of Kreysig Resonance, p. 85 of Kreysig J. Goldwyn on the mathematics of hearing Video of class (streaming) - to be posted Video of class (downloadable) - to be posted	Nov. 30 In Lecture: No class	Dec. 1 In Lecture: Mathematics and Law Class presentation by Vic Janmey and Nabil Darwich Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot, section 5.4 (See gigapedia.) Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Dec. 2 No class	Dec. 3 In Lecture: Art and the Golden Ratio Class presentation by Alejandra Murphy Judy, Dan Winston and Robert Parajon Associated Reading: Wikipedia on the golden ratio Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot "Elementary Theory of Numbers" by William J. LeVeque, chapter 5. This is available on gigapedia Video of class (streaming) - to be posted Video of class (downloadable)
Dec 6 In Lecture: Music and Harmony Class presentation by Caroline Cross, Evan Hyde and Yonas Solomon Associated Reading: Wikipedia on math and music Note the comments on the golden ratio near the end! Youtube performance of "Ann Rising" See the video for Nov. 29 about sound and hearing Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Dec. 7 In Lecture: No class	Dec. 8 In Lecture: Probability and Odds Applied to Blackjack Class presentation by Zach Zarrow, Scott Biddle and Carlos Munoz Associated Reading: Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition, by Morris deGroot. Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)	Dec. 9 No class	Dec. 10 In Lecture: Maximizing expected ranks Class presentation by Connie Phuong, Calvin Hon, Naveen Kasthuri, Yang Tang Associated Reading: `Who solved the secretary problem,' by T. Ferguson. `Optimal selection based on relative rank,' by Y. S. Chow, S. Moriguti, H. Robbins and S. M. Samuels Video of class (streaming) Video of class (downloadable)

Last updated: 12/10/10
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Math 210 schedule