Online Mathematics Textbooks: Jim Herod
Online Mathematics Textbooks: Jim Herod
Online Mathematics Textbooks: Jim Herod
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The writing of textbooks and making them freely available on the web is an idea whose time has
arrived. Most college mathematics textbooks attempt to be all things to all people and, as a
result, are much too big and expensive. This perhaps made some sense when these books
were rather expensive to produce and distribute--but this time has passed.
1. Professor Jim Herod and I have written Multivariable Calculus ,a book which we and a few
others have used here at Georgia Tech for two years. We have also proposed that this be
the first calculus course in the curriculum here, but that is another story....
2. Although it is still in print, Calculus,by Gilbert Strang is made available through MIT's
OpenCourseWare electronic publishing initiative.
3. Here is one that has also been used here at Georgia Tech. Linear Methods of Applied
Mathematics, by Evans Harrell and James Herod.
4. Yet another one produced at Georgia Tech is Linear Algebra, Infinite Dimensions, and
Maple, by James Herod.
5. I have also written a modest book, Complex Analysis, which I have used in our
introductory undergraduate complex analysis course here.
7. Professor E.H. Connell of the University of Miami has made available on the web his book
Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra. You should read his insightful comments about
textbooks.
10. Professor Jim Hefferon of Saint Michaels's College has made available his undergraduate
textbook Linear Algebra.
11. Another elementary linear algebra textbook is Elementary Linear Algebra, by Keith
Matthews.
13. An Introduction to Probability and Random Processes, by Gian-Carlo Rota and Kenneth
Baclawski. This is the 1979 manuscript of the work Professor Rota had been working on
for some time. It is made available through the efforts of David Ellerman.
14. Professor Herbert Wilf has made available his book generatingfunctionology.
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17. Furnished by David Joyce is a version of perhaps the greatest textbook of them all,
Euclid's Elements.
18. Daniel Callahan has also provided what he calls a "an open textbook based on Euclid's
Elements", Euclid's 'Elements' Redux.
20. Professor Robert Ash has written and made available Abstract Algebra:The Basic
Graduate Year.
22. Professor Ash has also completed and made available A Course in Commutative Algebra.
23. Originally published by Prindle, Weber & Schmidt but currently out of print, Elementary
Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals, by Professor H. Jerome Keisler, is now freely
available online.
25. Available for self-study from The Trillia Group is Basic Concepts of Mathematics, by Elias
Zakon.
26. Another one from The Trillia Group is An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by Leo
Moser.
27. Also from The Trillia Group are Mathematical Analysis I, and Mathematical Analysis II, by
Elias Zakon.
28. Thanks to Malaspina Great Books, Mechanism of the Heavens (1831), by Mary Somerville,
is available online. This second edition was prepared by Russell McNeil.
29. Lecture Notes on Optimization, by Pravin Varaiya. This is a re-issue of a book out of print
since 1975. It is an introduction to mathematical programming, optimal control, and
dynamic programming.
30. Published by Cambridge Press, but still freely available is Mathematical Ilustrations, by
Bill Casselman.
34. Yet another one out of print, but now freely available is Convergence of Stochastic
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40. Yet another one by Professor Sternberg is Semi-Riemann Geometry and General
Relativity
43. The Calculus of Functions of Several Variables is another one by Professor Sloughter.
46. Another one by Düntsch and Gediga is Rough Set Data Analysis.
48. Toposes, Triples and Theories, by Michael Barr and Charles Wells. This was orinally
published by Springer-Verlag, 1985
49. Also by Barr and Wells is Category Theory for Computing Science.
51. Numerical Methods and Analysis for Engineers, by Douglas Wilhelm Harder.
52. Analysis of Functions of a Single Variable, by Lawerence Baggett, was originally written to
be used for a one semester senior course, but the author suggests that it is more
appropriate for first year graduate students.
54. Convex Optimization, by Stephen Boyd, and Lieven Vandenberghe is freely available
thanks to Cambridge University Press.
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56. Abelian Categories, by Peter Freyd. This was published originally by Harper & Row.
57. Published by Van Nostrand in 1971 and now available is Categories and Groupoids, by P.
J. Higgins.
59. Abstract and Concrete Categories:The Joy of Cats, by Jiri Adamek, Horst Herrlich, and
George Strecker.
65. Notes on Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers, by Jiří Lebl .
66. According to the authors, Proofs and Concepts: the fundamentals of abstract mathematics,
by Dave Morris, and Joy Morris, provides an introduction to proofs, logic, sets, functions,
and other fundamental topics of abstract mathematics.
68. Originally published in 1970, Calculus and Linear Algebra. Vol. 1 and also Calculus and
Linear Algebra. Vol. 2, by Wilfred Kaplan and Donald J. Lewis, are available thanks to the
Scholarly Publishing Office of the University Library at University of Michigan.
72. Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof, by Ted Sundstrom. Earlier editions of this
one were published by Pearson Education, Inc., but this most recent edition is now freely
available.
73. Linear Algebra, by David Cherney, Tom Denton, and Andrew Waldron
75. Introduction to Vectors and Tensors, Vol. 1, Linear and Multilinear Algebra and Vol. 2,
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Vector and Tensor Analysis, by Ray M. Bowen and C.-C. Wang are revisons of works
originally published by Plenum Press. They are available from Dover Press, but made
freely available here.
77. Not simply an online textbook, but certainly in the same spirit is the Topology Webcourse
project undertaken by Topology Atlas.
George Cain
School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
cain@math.gatech.edu
25 June 2014
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