Open Text Book

‘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

‘Stratospheric Ozone - An Electronic Textbook’

Stratospheric Ozone - An Electronic Textbook is from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch. As it is produced by a US government department, is in the public domain.

Add comment September 6th, 2007

‘Wireless Networking in the Developing World’ and ‘How to Accelerate Your Internet’

Here are two interesting open textbooks with practical instructions about communications technologies:

• Wireless Networking in the Developing World. Creative Commons - Attribution ShareAlike (BY-SA)
• How to Accelerate Your Internet. Creative Commons - Attribution ShareAlike (BY-SA)

2 comments August 22nd, 2007

Geology

Here are a couple of textbooks in the public domain, made available by the U.S. Geological Survey:

• Study Guide for a Beginning Course in Ground-Water Hydrology by O. Lehn Franke, Thomas E. Reilly, Ralph J. Haefner and Dale L. Simmons
• This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics by Jacquelyne Kious and Robert I. Tilling

1 comment August 6th, 2007

Econometrics

Michael Creel at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona wrote Econometrics in 2005. The book and its source are available under either the a General Public License (GPL), or under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 license (CC-BY-SA).

3 comments July 25th, 2007