RE: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread A Jorge Garcia
I am thinking of using it for my Calculus Research Lab with SAGE next year! -Original Message- From: Dana Ernst Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:35 AM To: sage-edu@googlegroups.com Subject: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage I'm intrigued by the "Differential Calculus and Sage" book found

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread Jason Grout
On 02/13/2010 06:33 PM, ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: 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. My post is not related to Sage, but . When I was student, I real

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM, ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: >> 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. > > My post is not related to Sage, but . > > When I wa

[sage-edu] Re: Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
> 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. My post is not related to Sage, but . When I was student, I really disliked all the long books with a lot of motiv

Re: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Dana Ernst wrote: >> As far as comparison with Stewart, I would say Stewart is much better. > > Is it $200+ per book better? :) > > How does "Differential Calculus and Sage" compare to the Whitman Calculus > text found here: > > http://sites.google.com/site/whitma

Re: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread Dana Ernst
> As far as comparison with Stewart, I would say Stewart is much better. Is it $200+ per book better? :) How does "Differential Calculus and Sage" compare to the Whitman Calculus text found here: http://sites.google.com/site/whitmanmathematics/ An often overlooked calculus resource for instruc

Re: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread Jason Grout
On 02/13/2010 09:35 AM, Dana Ernst 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?

Re: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Dana Ernst 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

Re: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Dana, On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dana Ernst wrote: > Awesome.  I found a typo in the Preface: I know about that for a long time. It's just that David got burnt after finishing the differential calculus book. And I'm currently doing Sage release management. Add to that, David and I ar

Re: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread Dana Ernst
>> Also, if you know of other similar calculus texts, I'd love to hear about >> that, too. > > Here's another one under preparation: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/doc/calc2-sage/latest-r55/book.pdf > > It covers integral calculus and is designed as a follow-up to the > above d

Re: [sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Dana, On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Dana Ernst wrote: > Also, if you know of other similar calculus texts, I'd love to hear about >that, too. Here's another one under preparation: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/doc/calc2-sage/latest-r55/book.pdf It covers integral calculu

[sage-edu] Calculus and Sage

2010-02-13 Thread Dana Ernst
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