Tag Archives: open source
From my Amazon feed: Stewart’s Calculus for $272.52
In recent recommendations from Amazon, based on my prior reading and buying, I got an email suggesting that I buy James Stewart’s Calculus text. Heh. The 7th edition, no less: http://amzn.to/1Ly4mWi. At least you can rent it for $50 for the … Continue reading
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
Posted in Editing, Publicity, Publishing
Tagged calculus, free, online, open source, print-on-demand, resources, textbooks
Comments Off on Active Calculus: Single Variable, 2015 Version now available
Active Calculus – Multivariable: initial public offering
Steve, David, and I are pleased to announce that a first public version of Active Calculus – Multivariable is now available for download. You can find the file directly at http://gvsu.edu/s/Wb, or from the general Active Calculus site. If you are … Continue reading
AC3 is almost here
The multivariable edition of Active Calculus, to which I alluded in an earlier post, is almost ready to be shared publicly. Steve Schlicker, David Austin, and I have been hard at work for much of the summer, and are pleased … Continue reading
Posted in Publicity, Publishing
Tagged free, multivariable calculus, open source
Comments Off on AC3 is almost here
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
Posted in Editing, Publishing, Text Files
Tagged activities, calculus, free, open source, print-on-demand
1 Comment
Carroll College: Clicker Questions and Chapter Zero for Active Calculus
One of the most enjoyable aspects of this free and open textbook project has been all of the new friends I’ve made in the mathematics community. I just got to see several of them in Portland at Mathfest, including Eric … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Publicity, Resources
Tagged activities, calculus, clicker questions, open source, resources
1 Comment
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
Posted in Editing, General, Publicity, Publishing
Tagged calculus, free, open source, resources, textbooks
Comments Off on Updated version: Active Calculus 2014
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
Posted in General, Publicity, Publishing, Resources
Tagged free, online, open source, resources, textbooks
Comments Off on openmathbook.org
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
Posted in General, Publishing, Resources, Software
Tagged free, online, open source, resources, self-publishing, technology, textbooks
Comments Off on Joint Meetings 2014: free and open textbooks session
Active Calculus v.12.30.13 – updates
This fall I was glad to have a much larger number of beta testers using Active Calculus; about 10 of my GVSU colleagues used it for either our calculus I or calculus II, and at least that many other people … Continue reading
