Leonard Mlodinow
Home Bio Books Pictures Teaching Links Contact Authors@Google talk on YouTube New York Times Interview New York Times Essay on the Need for Control Wall Street Journal Essay on Hot Streaks and Joe DiMaggio Wall Street Journal Interview LA Times Magazine cover story on Randomness in Hollywood Newsweek cover story on Star Trek Wall Street Journal Drunkard's Walk Randomness Quiz Forbes article on The Meritocracy Paradox	TEACHING Introduction to Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore the theory of random processes with an emphasis on understanding its application in experimental science, engineering, and popular culture. The course will first develop the basic notions of probability such as sample spaces, probability densities and distributions, random variables, Bayes' theorem, expectation, limit theorems, and standard error, and then examine how those are applied to develop theories of statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression. Finally, it will touch on the basic theory of random walks, and Brownian motion. The course has no prerequisites and is open to all graduate students and undergraduates. Website: http://www.klab.caltech.edu/cns286/	Latest Book: a New York Times bestseller, editor's choice, and notable book of 2008 Amazon.com "one of the Ten Best Science Books of 2008" Shortlisted for Royal Society Science Book Award Fortune Magazine review of Drunkard's Walk ("mind-bending") Barron's review of Drunkard's Walk ("intriguing and well-written") New York Times review of Drunkard's Walk ("writes in a breezy style... a readable crash course in randomness")