Lec 1 | Sets, Counting, and Probability

Probability, Intuition, and Axioms - Probability by Symmetry; Probability by Experiment; Payoffs and Probability; Fair Price and Probability; Notation to Combine Sets; Venn Diagrams; Events and Sample Spaces; Event Spaces; Addition of Probabilities; Probability Functions; Inclusion-Exclusion Rule; Many Ways to Skin a Cat These lectures were offered as an online course at the Harvard Extension School This online math course develops the mathematics needed to formulate and analyze probability models for idealized situations drawn from everyday life. View complete course (Outline, Problem sets,etc) at: