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There is no official textbook for this course.
If you would like a textbook to supplement the first 7 weeks of the course, Parker recommends:
If you would like readings, but do not wish to invest in a textbook (or just want a different perspective), we have some suggested alternatives:
Wikipedia has thorough articles on most topics we discuss, but they often go very deep very quickly, making them sometimes hard to read.
With all of these resources, be careful that definitions and notations frequently differ between authors in subtle ways. Even simple sentences do not always mean what you think they mean.