This is the plain TeX source for the Whitman Calculus book. The tarball multivariable.tbz contains everything needed to produce the book. There is a Makefile that automates a typical build, and a script make_pdfs.pl that produces pdf files of individual chapters. This tarball was last updated on August 4, 2008, 11:40.

Over the summer of 2008 I have added more exercises, including contributions by Albert Schueller, Barry Balof, and Mike Wills. Also with Mike Wills I began working on a "late transcendentals" version of the book. Chapters 1-6 can now be produced in a late transcendentals version of differential calculus, but the material on exponentials, logarithms, and inverse trigonometric functions has not yet been added to later chapters. Mike Wills is planning to teach from this during fall 2008, and we should have the complete late transcendentals version ready to go by January. In the meantime, if you want to use the late transcendentals version, you will probably want to modify calculus.tex to input only chapters 1-6. The late transcendentals version is produced by setting a boolean to true; see the Makefile to see how this is done.

The tarball applets.tbz contains all the applets referenced by the book. The Makefile is set up for the production of three different versions of the early transcendentals book, depending on the assumed location of the Java applets: at Whitman, at googlepages.com, or on the local machine. It should be easy to put a copy of the applets on a local server and modify the book to point to the local copy for faster access. The applets were produced with the JavaViewLib software and Maple.

The tarball bookmacros.tbz contains the text for a short manual explaining how to use the macros that produce the book. These macros depend on a number of non-standard macro files. Each of the tarballs multivariable.tbz and bookmacros.tbz contain all of these files, so that the unpacked directories are self-contained. These files can of course be moved to some standard system location and eliminated from the individual directories.

I would be delighted to receive corrections, suggestions, and contributions to the book. I would particularly appreciate receiving new exercises. Of course, if you need major modifications to adapt the book to your needs, you are welcome to produce your own new version from the source.

I would appreciate knowing of anyone who uses this book in a class, and also would appreciate being able to see a copy of any modified version.

David Guichard
8/3/2008
guichard@whitman.edu