ECE 661
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Links to homework problems and their best solutions for previous offerings of this class:
Fall 2006 Fall 2008 Fall 2010 Fall 2012 Fall 2014 Fall 2016 Fall 2018 Fall 2020 |
This class is substantially self-contained. All you need in order to enroll for this class is that you be a graduate student in engineering, computer science, quantitative psychology, mathematics, etc. |
WHY THE HANDWRITTEN "SCROLLS" FOR THESE LECTURE NOTES? Think of these scrolls as expository art. Because of the difficulty of correcting the scrolls, my goal was to create the best possible explanations in the least amount of space. It has often taken me several days of non-stop work to produce a single scroll. Every sentence required careful thought and multiple attempts at expressing the thought on a regular piece of paper before writing it in the scroll. Writing by hand on paper creates a mind-set and a mental discipline that are simply not there in a document written on a computer. From my experience in teaching with these scrolls, while most students love them (eventually during the course of a semester if not at the very outset), some do not. But, then, that's true of all art forms. |
FEEDBACK WELCOME! If you have any comments or any suggestions for improving these notes, please send an email to kak@purdue.edu with the string "Comments on ECE 661" in the subject line to get past my spam filter. Any suggestions that I incorporate would be duly acknowledged. |
A NOTE FOR INSTRUCTORS USING THESE "SCROLLS": About the "scrolls" that are handed out in class, they look best when printed in color on long sheets of light yellow paper of size 11 in x 17 in (28 cm x 44 cm). Obviously, this is not the size of paper you can use with a home printer. However, many office copying/printing machines these days can make copies of this size without difficulty. |