My immediate plans are pretty limited: I guess my ideal scenario would be to have support for a summer for myself and an undergraduate employee to convert Micheal Corral's book to use sage, and to add some content. So perhaps something like $20,000, for making a sage-based Calc III book that could be used at my university.
Eventually (read: probably after tenure) I would like to work on a unified set of open-source texts for three semesters of calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra. But I wouldn't want to do that on my own. Of course, by the time I get to that I expect there will be some good starting material. (Part of the issue is that I need to tweak things to fit my institution, so for example I cannot use David Joyner's reworked Granville as is.) -M. Hampton On Oct 3, 12:17 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 Washingtonhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
