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 0: A review of probability theory」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

In preparation for my upcoming course on random matrices, I am briefly reviewing some relevant foundational aspects of probability theory , as well as setting up basic probabilistic notation that 下面会 be using in later posts. This is quite basic material for a graduate course, and somewhat pedantic in nature, but given how heavily 下面会 be relying on probability theory in this course, it seemed appropriate to take some time to go through these issues carefully.

We will certainly not attempt to cover all aspects of probability theory in this review. Aside from the utter foundations, 下面会 be focusing primarily on those probabilistic concepts and operations that are useful for bounding the distribution of random variables, and on ensuring convergence of such variables as one sends a parameter off to infinity.

已知结果和反例

We will assume familiarity with the foundations of measure theory; see for instance these earlier lecture notes of mine for a quick review of that topic. This is also not intended to be a first introduction to probability theory, but is instead a revisiting of these topics from a graduate-level perspective (and in particular, after one has understood the foundations of measure theory). Indeed, I suspect it will be almost impossible to follow this course without already having

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate. At a practical level, the opposite is true: just as number theorists study concepts (e.g. primality) that have the same meaning in every numeral system that models the natural numbers, we shall see that probability theorists study concepts (e.g. independence) that have the s

证明或构造的主线

For now, though, we shall stick to the standard measure-theoretic approach to probability theory. In this approach, we assume the presence of an ambient sample space , which intuitively is supposed to describe all the possible outcomes of all the sources of randomness that one is studying. Mathematically, this sample space is a probability space – a set , together with a -algebra of subsets of (the elements of which 下面会 identify with the probabilistic concept of an event ), a

Elements of the sample space will be denoted . However, for reasons that will be explained shortly, 下面会 try to avoid actually referring to such elements unless absolutely required to.

阅读时建议盯住的点

If we were studying just a single random process, e.g. rolling a single die, then one could choose a very simple sample space – in this case, one could choose the finite set , with the discrete -algebra and the uniform probability measure. But if one later wanted to also study additional random processes (e.g. supposing one later wanted to roll a second die, and then add the two resulting rolls), one would have to change the sample space (e.g. to change it now to the product

Example 1 As mentioned earlier, the sample space , that models the roll of a single die, can be extended to the sample space that models the roll of the original die together with a new die, with the projection map being given by .

值得单独记下的条目

• An event holds surely (or is true ) if it is equal to the sure event .
• An event holds almost surely (or with full probability ) if it occurs with probability : .
• An event holds with overwhelming probability if, for every fixed , it holds with probability (i.e. one has for some independent of ).
• An event holds with high probability if it holds with probability for some independent of (i.e. one has for some independent of ).
• An event holds asymptotically almost surely if it holds with probability , thus the probability of success goes to in the limit .
• If is an arbitrary family of events that each hold surely, then holds surely.
• If is an at most countable family of events that each hold almost surely, then holds almost surely.
• If is a family of events of polynomial cardinality (i.e. cardinality ) which hold with uniformly overwhelming probability, the holds with overwhelming probability.

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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