Open Text Book

Potto Project - Engineering textbooks

The Potto Project was started by Dr. Genick Bar-Meir to produce and distribute high quality open textbooks. Books are made available in pdf, LaTeX, dvi and postscript under the GFDL. So far the main books are ‘Fundamentals of Compressible Flow’ and ‘Fundamentals of Die Casting Design’, both available from the downloads page.

4 comments October 24th, 2007

‘Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus’ by William Granville

Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus (Revised edition) by William Anthony Granville was published in 1941 and so is in the public domain in some jurisdictions. A set of scans is available at Internet Archive. Thanks to David Joyner of Open Source Mathematics for this.

4 comments October 16th, 2007

‘Introduction to Methods of Applied Mathematics’ by Sean Mauch

Here’s Introduction to Methods of Applied Mathematics (alternately titled ‘Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers’) by Sean Mauch at Caltech. As well as stating the book is ‘open source’ on his website, the text carries the following notice:

Anti-Copyright @ 1995-2001 by Mauch Publishing Company, un-Incorporated. No rights reserved. Any part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or desecrated without permission.

Its latex source is also available. Thanks to David Joyner of Open Source Mathematics for this!

3 comments October 15th, 2007

‘Ears and Eyes’ by Benjamin Crowell

Eyes and Ears: An Anthology of Melodies for Sight-Singing by Benjamin Crowell is available under a CC-BY-SA license. The LaTeX source is also available.

Add comment October 9th, 2007

‘Calculus’ by Benjamin Crowell

Calculus by Benjamin Crowell is available under either a CC-BY-SA or a GFDL license. The LaTeX source is also available.

2 comments October 9th, 2007

‘An introduction to group theory’

An introduction to group theory was written by Tony Gaglione of the US Naval Research Laboratory in 1992. It is in the public domain and its source files are made available.

(Thanks to David Joyner of Open Source Mathematics for this!)

2 comments October 5th, 2007

‘How to Think Like a Computer Scientist’

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist is available in 4 versions, each based on a different programming language:

• A Python version by Allen B. Downey, Jeff Elkner and Chris Meyers;
• A Java version by Allen B. Downey;
• A Logo version by Allen B. Downey and Guido Gay;
• A C++ version by Allen B. Downey.

All versions are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and make their source code available.

2008-07-07: updated links!

5 comments October 1st, 2007