Yes, the Georgia Tech list is very good. But be careful, the books are "free" but do not always have open licenses and the authors retain copyright. Read the first paragraph of
http://www.math.unl.edu/~tshores1/linalgtext.html for a cautionary tale about "free" textbooks. Jason Grout's list is excellent, as is Textbook Revolution. And I didn't know about "Derivations," which looks very interesting (especially doing applied math in hex!). Rob On Jul 24, 8:13 am, Tim Lahey <tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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-spri... > > 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-applica... > > > 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.
