File Formats:

Most of the course materials above are provided in three formats:
HTML:
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the document format handled by WWW browsers, in fact you are currently looking viewing an HTML document. Many of the handouts we've provided were originally LaTeX documents that have been converted to HTML using LaTeX2HTML, which is why they can be a bit strange.
LaTeX:
Plain ASCII text including formating commands. Simple things (e.g. assignments) are generally quite legible in this format. For figures and complex math stuff, these are hard-to-impossible to read.
PostScript:
The Ghostscript Home Page has free viewers (Mac, Windows, OS/2, Linux, ...)

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