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The following book has met the evaluation criteria developed by the AIM Editorial Board.

Vector Calculus
by Michael Corral

Digital versions pdf

Latex source Yes

Exercises Yes, with answers to odd numbered problems

Solutions No

License Gnu Free Documentation LIcense

Multivariable calculus text
Print version (213 pages) from Lulu for $11
Author maintains a website with recent updates and improvements
Book review from SIAM Review
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The book has the material typically covered in the third semester of a mainstream calculus course for science, mathematics, and engineering students.

There are 420 exercises grouped into easy, moderate, and challenging categories. There are answers and some hints for the odd-numbered problems and for some of the even-numbered problems. Some exercises require the student to write programs for numerical approximations with code samples given in Java, but any programming language could be used.