These brief lecture notes have been saved as Adobe Acrobat PDF files and it is necessary to use the free Adobe Acrobat reader to read them. On the Mac use the installer and in Netscape check that the helper applications in the preferences under the options menu are correctly entered. Check the Adobe instructions for the correct settings . Currently, a password is required to read the notes. Printing is allowed, but the notes are incomplete and there are errors and omissions-especially in later chapters.
Additional comments are welcome - just open the notes and add additional notes.
Remember to save. If a note is not present and you would like to add one go to the page of interest and click on the note tool in the toolbar. It is next to the little box with abc in it. The other feature of these notes is that the lectures have been recorded and compressed using the RealAudio encoder. This affects a compression of the audio file by a factor from 16 to 20.