![]() Memes and similar content are not permitted. Image/Video posts should be on-topic and should promote discussion. If you are asking for advice on choosing classes or career prospects, please post in the stickied Career & Education Questions thread. ![]() Rule 4: No career or education related questions If you ask for help cheating, you will be banned. Do not ask or answer this type of question in /r/math. Homework problems, practice problems, and similar questions should be directed to /r/learnmath, /r/homeworkhelp or /r/cheatatmathhomework. This includes reference requests - also see our list of free online resources and recommended books. If you're asking for help learning/understanding something mathematical, post in the Quick Questions thread or /r/learnmath. Requests for calculation or estimation of real-world problems and values are best suited for the Quick Questions thread, /r/askmath or /r/theydidthemath. For example, if you think your question can be answered quickly, you should instead post it in the Quick Questions thread. Questions on /r/math should spark discussion. Rule 2: Questions should spark discussion Please avoid derailing such discussions into general political discussion, and report any comments that do so. ![]() In particular, any political discussion on /r/math should be directly related to mathematics - all threads and comments should be about concrete events and how they affect mathematics. All rights reserved.All posts and comments should be directly related to mathematics, including topics related to the practice, profession and community of mathematics. The Aperiodical © 2023 Peter Rowlett, Katie Steckles and Christian Lawson-Perfect. I also like the Hoffman text, which isn’t mentioned at the AIM site. If done as an ebook, it could also include links to many fabulous ideas in the blogs I follow.Ĭrowell may do enough of what I wanted (better than I could have, perhaps) that I can forget this thought, and go back to writing poetry in my spare time. I have two reasons: none of the textbooks are in the order I want, and none gave enough historical connection. I am, perhaps foolishly, also thinking about writing a(n open source) calculus textbook. I think it would make a great way for them to understand calculus better. It’s very readable, and his approach, both the infinitesimal, with discrete examples, and the historical connections, is very different from what they’ve seen so far. I think I’ll share the Crowell with my Calc I on their last day of class tomorrow. Tags: Benjamin Crowell, calculus, github, Matt Boelkins, open textbook, Open Textbook Initiative, open-source, Oppikirjamaraton, Project Gutenberg, textbook, Wikibooks About the authorĢ Responses to “Help a dude write an open-source calculus textbook (or use one of the many great ones already available)” There’s also, of course, the Wikibooks project’s maths section, and Project Gutenberg’s fantastic collection of lovingly reset out-of-copyright maths textbooks, mentioned here way back in April. ![]() The American Institute of Mathematics has an Open Textbook Initiative which maintains a list of approved texts, and Rob Beezer keeps his own list of material at the site for his (reputedly very good) First Course in Linear Algebra. ![]() There’s actually a lot of work being done to create and collate open course material for maths. Finally, there’s the Oppikirjamaraton, which produced a Finnish high school maths textbook in a weekend. Benjamin Crowell’s Calculus is also on GitHub and looks a lot more like a commercial textbook than other open textbooks, which tend not to elaborate on the default LaTeX style. Matt’s doing things in a more rigorous manner – his textbook is currently available on request, and will only be more easily available once it’s been tested. Matt Boelkins has been quietly plugging away at his Open Calculus for about a year. This is by no means the first open source calculus textbook, or even the first one called Open Calculus. It looks like a hobby project more than something serious. All the LaTeX source code is available in a repository at GitHub, so anyone with a working knowledge of version control can clone it and start adding material. He’s only a few pages in so far, so there’s plenty to do. He’s writing an open source calculus text, based at, which is aimed at students in their first semester of study. Posted Decemin NewsĪ chap called Dixon Crews has posted to reddit’s maths section asking for help with a writing project. You're reading: News Help a dude write an open-source calculus textbook (or use one of the many great ones already available)īy Christian Lawson-Perfect. Help a dude write an open-source calculus textbook (or use one of the many great ones already available) | The Aperiodical The Aperiodical ![]()
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