Stewart Ethier (Prof.)
address:
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
155 S. 1400 E., JWB 233
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
email:
ethier@math.utah.edu
phone:
801-581-6148 (my office)
801-581-6851 (dept. office)
801-581-4148 (fax)
office hours: 11:50--12:40 MWF.
Teaching:
Spring 2006 classes:
Math 5030 (Actuarial Mathematics),
Math 5080 (Statistical Inference I)
Fall 2006 classes:
Math 5040 (Stochastic Processes and Simulation I),
Math 6010 (Linear Models)
Spring 2007 classes:
Math 5050 (Stochastic Processes and Simulation II),
Math 6020 (Multilinear Models)
Fall 2007 classes:
Math 5010 (Introduction to Probability),
Math 6040 (Mathematical Probability)
Spring 2008 classes:
Math 5030 (Actuarial Mathematics),
Math 6070 (Mathematical Statistics)
Fall 2008 classes:
Math 5010 (Introduction to Probability),
Math 5080 (Statistical Inference I)
Research:
I have been working on gambling problems for the past few years, and am currently preparing a monograph/textbook in this area (see below). Here is a recent preprint:
On the fundamental theorem of card counting with application to the game of trente et quarante.
The first serious work on trente et quarante was by Simeon-Denis Poisson in 1825:
Memoire sur l'avantage du banquier au jeu de trente et quarante .
Here is an English translation:
Memoir on the advantage of the banker at the game of trente et quarante.
Published November 2007: Optimal Play: Mathematical Studies of Games and Gambling. (Ethier and Eadington, editors.)
Table of Contents. Order form.
To be published by Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2009: The Doctrine of Chances: Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling. (S. N. Ethier, author.) Announcement.