Any of the standard calculus textbooks cover most of the material in this course, including the three open access books listed below. For each lecture, references to the corresponding material in each of the books below will be given.


Open Access (Free) Books

There are very good open-access textbooks that cover most of the same material. The books listed below each have their own strengths.

(1) Vector Calculus, M. Corral. This book has rigorous definitions and many worked examples. But not a lot of motivation or explanation. There are also a good number of exercises and with answers.  

(2) Calculus: Early Transcendentals (html version)  (PDF version) by D Guichard and friends. Lots of explanations and intuition for the concepts and definitions. Quite a lot of useful pictures (you can rotate the 3D ones etc). Good number of exercises and solutions.

(3) Active Calculus Multivariable, by S Schlicker, D Austin and M. Boelkins. Lots of motivation given via graphical and numerical examples. Good for developing an intuitive understanding of the concepts.


The traditional textbook for the course is:

Calculus: A complete course, by Adams and Essex. (any edition)

We cover most of chapters 12 - 15  (this refers to the 10th edition).

However, we do not follow this book very closely and there is no need to purchase a copy.


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