General class information
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Evaluation
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BibliographyThere is no required textbook for this course, lecture notes, supplementary materials and homework problems will be available electronically. Please check theResources link in eCommons.For the first part of the course, a few recommended books that can be used to complement the materials presented in the class include:
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Class scheduleTu 09/22 Introduction to the class. Tu 09/27 Introduction to probability. Equiprobable spaces. Th 09/29 Expectation and variance. Utility. Tu 10/04 A brief history of gambling in the US: Screening of History Channel High Rollers Th 10/06 Playing roulette: rules and bets. Tu 10/11 Screening of History Channel Beat the Wheel Discussion on biased wheels. Th 10/13 Screening of History Channel Roulette Attack. Discussion on gambling systems. Tu 10/18 Playing Lotto: Some advanced counting rules. Th 10/20 Exam 1. Tu 10/25 Conditional probabilities and Bayes theorem. Th 10/27 Craps: rules and bets. Screening of History Channel's "Dice Dominator". Tu 11/01 Playing blackjack: Rules and bets. Th 11/03 Screening of Professor Blackjack. Card counting. Tu 11/08 Roulette revisited: Biased wheels, lengths of games and the distribution of profits. Th 11/10 Playing poker: Rules and bets. Tu 11/15 Exam 2. Th 11/17 Two-person, zero-sum games with non-random equilibria. Tu 11/22 The general, two-person zero-sum game. Th 11/24 Thanksgiving break. Tu 11/29 The two-person, non-zero-sum game. Th 12/01 Games of perfect information, Zermelo's theorem and unraveling. We 12/07 Final exam, between 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm. |
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Accommodations for students with disabilitiesEvery effort will be made to accommodate students with special needs. If you qualify for classroom accommodations because of a disability, please get an Accommodation Authorization from the Disability Resource Center (DRC) and submit it to me in person outside of class (e.g., office hours) within the first two weeks of the quarter. Contact DRC at 459-2089 (voice), 459-4806 (TTY), or http://drc.ucsc.edu for more information on the requirements and/or process. |
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Academic integrityAll work you submit for this class must be your own, and a strict code of honor will be enforced. Please check the UCSC student code of conduct at http://www2.ucsc.edu/judicial/student-conduct07.pdf.Please avoid plagiarism! I strongly recommend that you check the information literacy tutorials at http://nettrail.ucsc.edu/. |