On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Dana Ernst <dcer...@plymouth.edu> wrote: > I'm intrigued by the "Differential Calculus and Sage" book found here: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/ > > Who has used this book (besides the authors, although I'm interested in what > David Joyner has to say)? Any comments? Currently, I use Stewart's > "Calculus". How do these books compare? > > I've been planning on moving away from using an expensive textbook for some > time now, but there are only so many things you can do at once:) Perhaps > "Differential Calculus and Sage" could make this move easy for me. I'd love > to hear thoughts and comments, both of the positive and negative variety. > Also, if you know of other similar calculus texts, I'd love to hear about > that, too. >
I have never used that book, unfortunately. (Our calculus course decisions are made by large committees...) I was told that a school in Va was going to start using it, but I've forgotten the details. If you have a chance to use it and have suggestions, let me know. Minh is right though, that experience really burnt me out. I was planning on working on a calc 2 and calc 3 book as well but that one book was too much! As far as comparison with Stewart, I would say Stewart is much better. To be fair, Granville was the calculus text in America for decades. Now I guess it is Stewart though. I think Granville is a good book is you like a fairly rigorous and geometrical approach to calculus. > Thanks. > > > Dana Ernst, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Department of Mathematics > Plymouth State University > MSC 29, 17 High Street > Plymouth, NH 03264-1595 > > Email: dcer...@plymouth.edu > Web Page: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~dcernst > Office: Hyde 312 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
