Fall 2026

Syllabus: 26s4113-syllabus

Homework Assignments

All problems are from the “Problems” section of the book. Problem numbers in bold are the focus problems. The assignments here are listed with their 10th edition numbering. See this page for the 9th edition numbering.

HW 1 (due Sep 2)
Ch. 2: 3, 6, 8
Ch. 1: 5, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30, 33

HW 2 (due Sep 9)
Ch. 2: 14, 20, 25, 33, 39, 45, 49, 56

HW 3 (due Sep 21)
Ch. 3: 5, 10, 17, 21, 28, 32, 37, 45, 46, 52, 58, 63(a), 74, 77, 81

HW 4 (due Sep 23)
Ch. 3: 86, 93

HW 5 (due Oct 7)
Ch. 4: 1, 3, 4, 10, 13, 17–19, 20, 23, 27, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 42, 44, 48, 50

HW 6
Ch. 4: 57, 60, 62, 64, 68, 73, 74, 78, 80, 81, 83, 86, 87
Supplemental problems: hw-supplement (#1 is a focus problem)

HW 7
Ch. 5: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 17, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 31, 32, 37, 39, 42–44

HW 8
Ch. 6: 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 30, 37

HW 9
Ch. 6: 42, 43–45, 46, 47, 54
Ch. 7: 4, 5-7, 13, 16

HW 10
Ch. 7: 30, 36, 37, 40, 42, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 70, 73, 74, 80

HW 11
Ch. 8: 1, 2, 5–7, 9, 10, 13, 14–16

Lecture Notes

These notes are listed in the order in which they will be covered.

1. Sections 2.1–2.3
2. Sections 1.1–1.5
3. Sections 2.4–2.5
4. Sections 3.1–3.4
5. Section 3.5
6. The logic of random variables
7. Sections 4.1–4.3
8. Sections 4.4–4.6
9. Sections 4.7–4.10
10. Sections 5.1–5.5
11. Sections 5.6–5.7
12. Sections 6.1–6.3
13. Sections 6.4–6.5, 7.2
14. Sections 7.4, 7.5.1–7.5.3
15. Sections 7.5.4, 7.7
16. Sections 8.1–8.4

Review of all covered material

Supplemental Notes

Conditional densities, mass functions, and expectation
Modes of convergence and the fundamental limit theorems