CARMA Discrete Mathematics Instructional Seminar

3:00 pm

Thursday, 23rd May 2013

V101, Mathematics Building


Prof. Richard Brent

(Australian National University)

The Probabilistic Method continues

We continue on the Probabilistic Method, looking at Chapter 4 of Alon and Spencer. We will consider the second moment, the Chebyshev's inequality, Markov's inequality and Chernoff's inequality.