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? Currently, I use Stewart's "Calculus". How do
these books compare?
I've been planning on moving away from using an expensive textbook for some time now, but
there are only so many things you can do at once:) Perhaps "Differential Calculus
and Sage" could make this move easy for me. I'd love to hear thoughts and comments,
both of the positive and negative variety. Also, if you know of other similar calculus
texts, I'd love to hear about that, too.
A textbook rep from W.H. Freeman visited me yesterday and introduced me
to Rogawski's book [1], which seemed pretty cheap comparatively, though
I haven't looked at how good it is. Also, Slashdot had an article about
free calculus books a while back [2]. Also, Ben Woodruff and I are
working on some notes for Calculus 3, which I am posting up for my class
as we go through them this semester [3] (I'm also working on Sage
worksheets corresponding to each unit, based on Ben's Mathematica
worksheets for the units). Ben is working more on the notes this
summer, and then we'll be posting them up as a "book". Also, if you're
interested in free textbooks in general, Section 5.1.3 of our UTMOST
CCLI grant proposal [4] has a very nice listing of books, including free
calculus books.
Thanks,
Jason
[1] http://www.whfreeman.com/newcatalog.aspx?search=rogawski or
http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-Jon-Rogawski/dp/0716772671
[2] http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/03/04/028253.shtml
[3]
http://orion.math.iastate.edu/grout/courses/calculus_iii/spring_2010/notes
[4] http://orion.math.iastate.edu/grout/grants
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