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

Calculus
  by Gilbert Strang

Digital versions pdf of entire text and individual chapters
Latex source No
Exercises Yes, with answers to odd numbered problems
Solutions No
License Creative Commons Share Alike

  • This is a scanned version of the first edition (1991) and so the image quality is only fair.
  • Published by Wellsley Cambridge Press and made available in digital format through the MIT Open Course Ware project.
  • The second edition (2010) costs about $80 from the publisher.
  • Full text is about 650 pages and 40 MB.
  • Print version not available, but those using the book are allowed to print it and to recover actual costs for up to 1000 copies.
  • Student study guide and instructor manual are available.
  • For more information and to download

The book covers all the material of single and multivariable calculus that is normally in a three semester course for science, mathematics, and engineering students.

The style is less formal and more personal than the typical text, and it has a definite point of view that helps keep the book to a reasonable length. Still, there are some non-traditional topics such as a bit of linear algebra in two and three dimensions in the chapter on vectors and a section on complex numbers in the chapter on polar coordinates.