Instructor:
Prof. Arunava Banerjee
Office: CSE E336.
E-mail: arunava@cise.ufl.edu.
Phone: 505-1556.
Office hours: Tuesday 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. or by appointment.
TA:
Subhajit Sengupta
TA Office: CSE E309.
E-mail: ss5@cise.ufl.edu.
Office hours: Wednesday 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Pre-requisites:
The goal of this course is to cover several topics in mathematics that is of general interest to people pursuing a Ph.d in intelligent systems. The course will focus on conceptual clarity.
There is no official text book for this course. We will mostly work with online material posted on the net. However, following are two good books to keep in mind.
References: Please return to this page at least once a week to check
updates in the table below
Evaluation: The final grade will be based on two midterm exams
(30% each) and several assignments (remaining 40%).
Course Policies:
Academic Dishonesty:
See http://www.regulations.ufl.edu/chapter4/4017.pdf
for Academic Honesty Guidelines. All academic dishonesty cases will be
handled through the University of Florida Honor Court procedures as
documented by the office of Student Services, P202 Peabody Hall. You may
contact them at 392-1261 for a "Student Judicial Process: Guide for Students"
pamphlet.
Students with Disabilities: Students requesting classroom
accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of
Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide
this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation.
Tentative List of Topics to be covered
List of Topics covered
Principles of Mathematical Analysis, W. Rudin
Linear Algebra, K. M. Hoffman, R. Kunze
Probability and Measure, P. Billingsley
Probability: Theory and examples, R. Durrett, can be found online at
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.155.4899
Week
Topic
Additional Reading
Assignment
Aug 21 - Aug 27
Aug 28 - Sep 03
Sep 04 - Sep 10
Sep 11 - Sep 17
Sep 18 - Sep 24
Sep 25 - Oct 01
Oct 02 - Oct 08
Oct 09 - Oct 15
Oct 16 - Oct 22
Oct 23 - Oct 29
Oct 30 - Nov 05
Nov 06 - Nov 12
Nov 13 - Nov 19
Nov 20 - Nov 26
Nov 27 - Dec 03
Dec 04 - Dec 10