American Inst. of Mathematics. The following open-source or open-access textbooks have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board.
The Board has also identified three additional books to watch for calculus, the liberal arts course, and real analysis that have not been widely used but otherwise meet the evaluation criteria. Liberal Arts Math. Friendly lessons for lasting insight. Stitz Zeager Open Source Mathematics. Stage 1. Stitz Zeager Open Source Mathematics.
Free Mathematics Books. Online texts. 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.... Although it is still in print, Calculus,by Gilbert Strang is made available through MIT's OpenCourseWare electronic publishing initiative. Here is one that has also been used here at Georgia Tech. Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics, by Evans Harrell and James Herod. Stitz Zeager Open Source Mathematics. Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography. Somehow I became the canonical undergraduate source for bibliographical references, so I thought I would leave a list behind before I graduated.
I list the books I have found useful in my wanderings through mathematics (in a few cases, those I found especially unuseful), and give short descriptions and comparisons within each category. I hope that this list may serve as a useful “road map” to other undergraduates picking their way through Eckhart Library.