Reader’s guide

Throughout these lecture notes, we have included plenty of exercises (in green boxes) and homeworks (in red boxes). The exercises are meant for you to test your understanding as you read along, and we provide solutions for all of them at the end of each quest. The homeworks are meant to be handed in each week. Some of the problems are marked as ‘optional’ – we think they are not strictly necessary for following the course, but they provide good additional practice. Some are also marked as ‘challenging’ – these are a bit harder then the rest!