陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「254A, Notes 2: The central limit theorem」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Consider the sum of iid real random variables of finite mean and variance for some . Then the sum has mean and variance , and so (by Chebyshev’s inequality) we expect to usually have size . To put it another way, if we consider the normalised sum

then has been normalised to have mean zero and variance , and is thus usually of size .

已知结果和反例

In the previous set of notes , we were able to establish various tail bounds on . For instance, from Chebyshev’s inequality one has

and if the original distribution was bounded or subgaussian, we had the much stronger Chernoff bound

证明或构造的主线

for some absolute constants ; in other words, the are uniformly subgaussian.

Now we look at the distribution of . The fundamental central limit theorem tells us the asymptotic behaviour of this distribution:

阅读时建议盯住的点

Theorem 1 (Central limit theorem) Let be iid real random variables of finite mean and variance for some , and let be the normalised sum (1) . Then as , converges in distribution to the standard normal distribution .

Exercise 2 Show that does not converge in probability or in the almost sure sense. ( Hint: the intuition here is that for two very different values of , the quantities and are almost independent of each other, since the bulk of the sum is determined by those with . Now make this intuition precise.)

值得单独记下的条目

• If converges in distribution to , and converges in distribution to , and at least one of is deterministic, show that converges in distribution to .
• If converges in probability to , and converges in probability to , show that converges in probability to .
• If converges almost surely to , and converges almost surely , show that converges almost surely to .
• (i) converges pointwise to .
• (ii) converges in distribution to .
• (ii) is a tight sequence.
• (iii) is the characteristic function of a -valued random variable (possibly after extending the sample space).
• (iv) converges in distribution to some -valued random variable (possibly after extending the sample space).

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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