NYU Probability Summer 2009

The application used here is del.icio.us and not diigo but the way it's used is exactly the same. So it should help if you're unclear on this concept still.

Quick video overview of social bookmarking with del.icio.us.

Overview of the history, philosophy, and basic operations in set theory. Fortunately, sets are an extremely flexible way to describe mathematical objects, such as the sample space of some experiment. To our disappointment, it turns out to not be the be-all, end-all of mathematics, but that's a subject for a logic course.

explanation of the different positions in basketball. How many ways can a team be created from the same five players?

A joint probability calculation with some flaws...

This is probably beyond the scope of the course but the article is very well written and will be interesting before and after the course.

More colorful depictions of this South Philly institution

The official website

How many ways can you order a cheesesteak if you can get it with or without onions and with provolone cheese, American cheese, or Cheez Whiz?

A famous purveyor of the Philadelphia "Cheesesteak" sandwich

Describing the way phone numbers is North America are coded

Area codes used to be much more restrictive. How many area codes were possible before 1995? After 1995?

Unless you're really interested in all the pictures of license plates, scroll down to "County coding" to see the mathematically relevant part. Ask yourself: how many license plates can be generating in the scheme used from 1963 to 2008? How many can be generated in the new scheme?

A gallery of Indiana license plates and description of the various coding schemes used.