Byron Schmuland

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I teach probability and statistics at the University of Alberta.


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Striking applications of integration by parts
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Probability of 3 people in a room of 30 having the same birthday
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Probability for the length of the longest run in $n$ Bernoulli trials
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A stronger version of discrete “Liouville's theorem”
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Pythagorean triplets $x^2+y^2 = z^3$
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Intuition behind Conditional Expectation
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Does the series $ \sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^{1 + |\sin(n)|}} $ converge or diverge?
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$x,y$ are integers satisfying $2x^2-1=y^{15}$, show that $5 \mid x$
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Stirling's formula: proof?
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Proving : $ \bigl(1+\frac{1}{n+1}\bigr)^{n+1} \gt (1+\frac{1}{n})^{n} $
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Birthday-coverage problem
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Elementary central binomial coefficient estimates
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What was the last mathematical paper published in Latin?
14
Expected number of rolling a pair of dice to generate all possible sums
14
A good quick introduction to Knot Theory?
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Notation question: Integrating against a measure
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Computing $\lim\limits_{n\to+\infty}n\int_{0}^{\pi/2}xf(x)\cos ^n xdx$
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Variance of sample variance?
12
The expected payoff of a dice game
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Expected number of steps to transform a permutation to the identity
12
Proof of a (simple?) inequality
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$n!+1$ being a perfect square
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How many squares does a line between two points pass through?
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Generalizing the trick for integrating $\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-x^2}dx$?
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An application of Jensen's Inequality
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Maximizing the sum of two numbers, the sum of whose squares is constant
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If n balls are thrown into k bins, what is the probability that every bin gets at least one ball?
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Convergent series exercise from Little Rudin
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Eigenvalues for $3\times 3$ stochastic matrices
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Prove that $\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{F_{n}}{2^{n}}= \sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{2^{n}}$
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