18.200 Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics
18.200 Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics (Spring 2024, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Ankur Moitra, Prof. Peter Shor, and Susan Ruff. This course will teach you illustrative topics in discrete applied mathematics, including counting, generating functions, probability, linear optimization, algebraic structures, basic number theory, information theory, and coding theory. It is a CI-M (Communication Intensive in the Major) course and thus includes a writing component. (from ocw.mit.edu)
| Lecture 09 - Chernoff Bounds |
We introduce and prove Chernoff's theorem bounding the tails of sums of random variables. Unlike our previous tail bounds, this assumes that all the variables are independent.
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