About the Notes

Usage and Distribution

• My notes and Web pages are copyrighted --- please don't describe them as "public domain".
• You may use my notes and pages without charge for personal study. You may distribute them (e.g. to classes) without any payment to me, provided that you do not profit by such distribution. Commercial or for-profit distribution requires my explicit approval.
• If you cite my notes or pages, or if you use large chunks verbatim, you should follow standard academic citation practice and give me the credit (or the blame).
• I appreciate hearing about typos or mistakes.
• While the specifics of the exposition are original, most of the mathematical ideas are not.
• I don't distribute the TeX source for the notes. They are only available in PostScript format. (Conversion to other formats, such as Microsoft Word, would take almost as long as writing everything over from scratch.) I've been told that PostScript presents some accessibility issues, and I'm working on a program to convert my TeX source to Web pages.

How the notes were written

All of my notes are written in (plain) TeX, the mathematical typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. I use GNU Emacs for text editing; the TeX packages are MikTeX (Windows) and teTeX (Linux). I use CorelDraw! and Mathematica to create the graphics. The TeX DVI files are converted to PostScript using dvips. A lot of the tables are generated by Perl scripts.

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Last updated: July 9, 2007

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