Textbook Project (30%)

Over the course of the semester, you will write your own ``textbook'' for the course, consisting of verbal explanation of the key ideas, selected worked examples, theorems and proofs. Essentially, it consists of the notes you are taking anyway, but cleaned up and typed in L^ATEX(I will provide a template). You are encouraged to use the Wasserman text as a skeleton, but it is terse; your presentation should be more fleshed out, and written in your own style. The audience is you before you took this course (or a student coming into a course like this one, with similar background). At two points throughout the semester, you will exchange parts of your work-in-progress with peers, who will read and give feedback. You will then have the opportunity to revise. Each peer editing step is worth 5%; the final product is 20%. Honor Code: Each person is responsible for their own work, but discussions with peers are encouraged. There will undoubtedly be some overlap with the Wasserman book, and it is okay to use examples from the book or from other sources, but wording must be your own, and equations must be typeset by you.