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 _Recommended textbooks_:
 The lecture notes are collected as a jupyter-book at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/LectureNotes/_build/html/intro.html. In addition to the electure notes, we recommend the books of Bishop and Goodfellow et al. We will follow these texts closely and the weekly reading assignments refer to these two texts.
 - Christopher M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387310732. This is the main textbook and this course covers chapters 1-7, 11 and 12. If you login to the University Library or access this site via a University IP number, you can download for free the textbook in PDF format or epub format.
-- We recommend also the text of Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. The different chapters are available for free at https://www.deeplearningbook.org/. Chapters 2-14 are highly recommended. The lectures follow to a larg extent this text.
+- We recommend the text of Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. The different chapters are available for free at https://www.deeplearningbook.org/. Chapters 2-14 are highly recommended. The lectures follow to a larg extent this text.
 The weekly plans will include reading suggestions from these two textbooks.
 _Additional textbooks_:
 - Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome H. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning, Springer, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387848570. This is a well-known text and serves as additional literature.