There's an excellent list of free mathematics textbooks at, http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html
It's not complete, but it covers quite a lot of topics. One I know it's missing is http://www.derivations.org/ which isn't a good book to learn from, but is a pretty good reference for a number of areas of mathematics. Also, there are a bunch of books listed at, http://textbookrevolution.org/ on a variety of topics. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dana Ernst <ernst.tr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've committed myself (intentionally) to not having my students purchase a > textbook this year for the calculus sequence. I'm in the process of > exploring some of the free calculus textbooks that are out there. If I > don't find one that I particularly like, I may just not use one at all > (although, it would be extremely time consuming to write all of my own > exercises). > One book that I am seriously considering using is the "Whitman Calculus" > book by David Guichard. Here is the link to the book: > http://sites.google.com/site/whitmanmathematics/ > I'm wondering if anyone has used this book and if so, whether you have any > feedback. One shortcoming of this text is that it does not have a lot of > exercises. If someone has used the book, written supplementary problem > (especially Sage-related exercises), and would be willing to share, I'd be > thrilled. > I'd also love to hear about any other books that people have used (or even > heard of). I've also thought about using Paul's Online Math Notes: > http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/CalcI.aspx > However, this does not include any exercises. If someone has written > exercises to accompany Paul's Notes and would be willing to share, I'd love > to see them. > For your reference, here is a list of some of the free calculus books that I > have seen online (in no particular order): > > MIT > OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-001-calculus-online-textbook-spring-2005/textbook/ > Understanding Calculus: http://www.understandingcalculus.com/index.php > Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal > Approach: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html > Whitman Calculus: http://sites.google.com/site/whitmanmathematics/ > Differential Calculus with > Sage: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/teaching/calc1-sage/ > Calculus, Applications and > Theory: http://groups.google.com/group/freecomputerbooks/web/calculus-applications-and-theory-2008-kenneth-kuttler > > Many of these are on Jason Grout's web page > (http://artsci.drake.edu/grout/doku.php/teaching_resources). Jason has lots > of other great resources, so I encourage you to check his page out. > Thanks in advance. > > Dana C. 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 356 > > -- > 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.
