Category Archives: Editing
Three notes about updated HTML for APC and ACS
For all Active Calculus texts, users should always view the HTML version of each as the definitive version: the HTML is easiest and fastest to update. You can always see the last date the HTML was updated by going to … Continue reading
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Alternate ending: draft of a new Chapter 8
I’ve written a rough draft of a very different version of Chapter 8 for Active Calculus (single variable), and I am interested in feedback from users. TL;DR version: I have come to think that the Taylor series representations of the … Continue reading
Active Calculus 2018 – new edition
I’m excited to share several updates to Active Calculus: 1. New 2018 edition of Active Calculus – single variable The 2018 HTML version is now live at https://activecalculus.org/single/. The PDF will be posted in the near future on a new page … Continue reading
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Prelude to Active Calculus – feedback sought
I’ve been awarded a sabbatical for the fall semester of 2018 to write a new free, open-source textbook for GVSU’s new MTH 124: Functions and Models. The purpose of this course is to prepare students not-yet-ready for calculus for a … Continue reading
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A few updates to the HTML version of Active Calculus
I’ve made the following corrections to fix some typos and other errors: The statement of the quotient rule in Section 2.5 mistakenly stipulated that the derivative of the denominator be nonzero, when of course it’s the denominator function itself must … Continue reading
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2017 version of Active Calculus (single variable)
I’m excited to announce several changes to single variable Active Calculus along with some corresponding updates that will occur over the next month or so. + There is now a new HTML version of the text. Thanks to Rob Beezer’s … Continue reading
New Year Updates to AC
Happy New Year everyone. Here are a couple of brief updates if you are planning to use Active Calculus in the upcoming winter semester. Thanks to everyone who sent us errors they found in the text, as well as other … Continue reading
Active Calculus – errata pages
An overdue addition for Active Calculus (single) and the addition to AC Multivariable that prompted it: errata pages for both. You can find a list of currently identified errors in each text at these links: single variable, multivariable. Of course, … Continue reading
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Active Calculus: Single Variable, 2015 Version now available
This summer, in addition to working with Steve and David on AC3, I went through the original single-variable version and implemented changes to correct typos, clarify questions, and more in response to over 100 suggestions I received from users. To … Continue reading
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Active Calculus – download page update
I realized today that somehow an older version of my download page had gotten migrated to my website (I think this happened when I did some other updates two weeks ago), so if you have downloaded the text in the … Continue reading
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