On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:08 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you ever asked David Kohel if he is willing to release the source > files for his cryptography book? The PDF has a creative commons > license, so the odds seem good. > > Are there any foundations or other funding agencies out there that > might support work on creating free and open source texts? I'll work > on my own time if I have to but I could do a lot more with a small > grant.
How much money are you thinking about? I can keep my eyes open, but it helps a lot to know the desired level of support. William > > Cheers, > Marshall > > On Oct 2, 3:44 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's on my to-do list as well. >> >> BTW, the part of Granville's text which I worked on was just the Calc 1 >> portion. >> For the Calc 2 part, I used notes of William Stein and Dale Hoffman. >> It is about 150 pages but needs more work. >> I also have notes on DEs which also need work! >> >> I've been posting some (IMHO) good FOSTs (free and open source texts:-) >> here:http://www.opensourcemath.org/books/ >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Ever since David Joyner updated Granville's Calculus book and added >> > Sage examples, I've been on the lookout for a good multivariable calc >> > book to extend the series. A very nice one is available at: >> >> >http://www.mecmath.net/ >> >> > The complete LaTeX source is available, although I couldn't get it to >> > compile after about 1/2 hour of trying. I would be interested if >> > someone else can get that done. >> >> > The author (Michael Corral) uses Java for his computational examples. >> > It would not be that hard to convert these to Sage, and then I think I >> > could make a push to use it in my courses. >> >> > At the moment I don't have time to really pursue this, but I will >> > continue to think about what exactly I'd like to do with it. > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
