Category Archives: Publishing

Active Calculus: things in the works this summer

Having survived both the Michigan winter and the Grand Valley winter semester, I’m excited to get working more regularly on some items related to Active Calculus.  Here’s an overview of my summer projects, two of which serve as a call for … Continue reading

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Active Calculus – Print on Demand — almost here

In my mail today, I got a printed copy of the proof for the book.  It was incredibly fun to see the text go from its purely electronic format and the planned cover image and see it actually become the … Continue reading

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Updated version: Active Calculus 2014

Recently I shared news that I’ve been working on a print-on-demand version of the text.  Lon Miller of Orthogonal Publishing and I are in the final stages of that project, and expect by the end of the week of August 11 … Continue reading

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Coming soon: print-on-demand and AC3

Two updates for the near and not-so-near future: – This summer, I’m working to establish a print-on-demand option for bound copies; I expect this to be available no later than early August, and will post here about the option once … Continue reading

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Unglue.it

[Insert profuse apologies here regarding my limited posting over the past four months.] It is finally warm outside after an unusually brutal Michigan winter; warm weather brings the promise of many things, and one of those is more time to … Continue reading

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openmathbook.org

As an outgrowth of the previously-mentioned session at the Baltimore Joint Meetings on open textbooks, Albert Schueller has started a new blog, Open Mathbook, to offer “a place to promote, discuss, and develop free and open source mathematics texts.”  There’s … Continue reading

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Joint Meetings 2014: free and open textbooks session

While it was certainly a good conference overall this year, last Friday at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore was particularly fantastic.  From 8-11 and 3-5, we had about 15 different presenters share interesting and exciting work and opportunities in the … Continue reading

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Active Calculus: now endorsed by the American Institute of Mathematics

One of the goals of the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) is “to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks.”  Their editorial board maintains a list of approved texts that have been reviewed according to their … Continue reading

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A great text, newly free

[Sheepish apologies for my too-long absence from blogging.  Life!] My friend and GVSU colleague Ted Sundstrom has recently made his wonderful text, Mathematical Reasoning, free to the public.  After being originally published by Prentice Hall in two separate editions and … Continue reading

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Using Geogebra in Calculus

Last week Thursday I gave a colloquium talk at a local college on some of my favorite results in the area of mathematics known as “the geometry of polynomials.”  During the talk, I used a couple of demonstrations built in … Continue reading

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