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Re: Open source multivariable calc book

2008-10-04T03:00:33Z

I'll take this opportunity to say that I don't see any reason why Sage
would not be a viable option for a (properly worded) CCLI (course,
curriculum, laboratory) grant from the NSF. Not that it would be
guaranteed to get it, but if it was made clear what exactly about Sage
(or a book) would not be done by commercial ventures anyway, it should

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Open source multivariable calc book

2008-10-03T17:17:52Z

How much money are you thinking about? I can keep
my eyes open, but it helps a lot to know the desired
level of support.
William

Re: Open source multivariable calc book

2008-10-03T12:08:17Z

Have you ever asked David Kohel if he is willing to release the source
files for his cryptography book? The PDF has a creative commons
license, so the odds seem good.

Are there any foundations or other funding agencies out there that
might support work on creating free and open source texts? I'll work

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Open source multivariable calc book

2008-10-02T23:05:28Z

Hi David,
And on mine as well. The PDF version of the book looks visually
appealing. I intend to keep that visual presentation.
Great. Thanks for that link.

Re: [sage-edu] Open source multivariable calc book

2008-10-02T20:44:39Z

That's on my to-do list as well.
BTW, the part of Granville's text which I worked on was just the Calc 1 portion.
For the Calc 2 part, I used notes of William Stein and Dale Hoffman.
It is about 150 pages but needs more work.
I also have notes on DEs which also need work!
I've been posting some (IMHO) good FOSTs (free and open source texts:-) here:

Open source multivariable calc book

2008-10-02T20:19:21Z

Ever since David Joyner updated Granville's Calculus book and added
Sage examples, I've been on the lookout for a good multivariable calc
book to extend the series. A very nice one is available at:

[link]

The complete LaTeX source is available, although I couldn't get it to

Re: [sage-edu] Why do I use Sage?

2008-10-01T16:42:38Z

Jason,
Very nice email. I posted some of it to my blog:
sagemath.blogspot.com

Why do I use Sage?

2008-10-01T16:14:21Z

In-Jae,
I'm forwarding my reply to sage-support and sage-edu, two mailing lists
that are dedicated to helping people use Sage. To others on the list:
please feel free to respond to "Why do I use Sage over (or with) other
commercial software" and how you use Sage in teaching.
Yes, both. I am currently using it in Calc 2 and differential equations

Fwd: read some calculus?

2008-09-23T12:25:55Z

William Stein posted this to sage-devel a while ago but perhaps there
are some people on this list who aren't on that:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
To: sage-devel
Hi,
I hired a student (Elliott Brossard) this summer to write a nice
web-basedCalculustutorial using sage.
Obviously I intend to carefully read through it, but I don't have time

Re: moving around worksheets

2008-09-21T01:57:51Z

On Sep 17, 2:37 pm, "Timothy Clemans" <timothy.clem...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Well, I do a lot on that machine. I have servers running alpha
versions and patched versions for testing and development, and others
for students, and others where I want lower security/more
flexability...lots of reasons. For my graduate students I want long

Re: Interactive, online Calculus lessons

2008-09-20T17:48:29Z

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.

David, I'll try to do what you suggest. I've thought several times
that it would be nice if I could just pop from that link directly into
a SAGE session w/the WS, but this is good too.

Jason, I think I've fixed the links for Part I. The Home link has been

Re: Interactive, online Calculus lessons

2008-09-19T20:07:31Z

Very, very nice. Thanks for posting these.

-M. Hampton

Re: [sage-edu] Interactive, online Calculus lessons

2008-09-19T20:06:07Z

These are absolutely fantastic! Thanks for posting these.
I noticed that the "Return" link on the index page doesn't work, as well
as the Home link on the slides...
Thanks,
Jason

Re: [sage-edu] Interactive, online Calculus lessons

2008-09-19T14:40:08Z

I think this is great. I'm not a notebook user, so this suggestion might be
easy or hard or impossible, but I wonder if you could have a "html preview"
link next to each worksheet to allow people to view it statically? This
would advertise to others (eg, potential student users or even non-Sage users

Interactive, online Calculus lessons

2008-09-19T13:47:33Z

Hello all,

A group member encouraged me to announce this here, so here goes.

This past summer I worked on a project to develop interactive, online
lessons for Calculus I. (Calc II too as well, there's only so much
time in the day.) The general idea is that each set of slides should
pass for course notes, and whenever appropriate should promote the