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Contributing Editors:
Mitch Keller
Washington & Lee University
Dave Kung
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Paul Latiolais
Portland State College
Hugh McGuire
GVSU
Ray Rosentrater Westmont College
Luis Sanjuan
Conservatorio Profesional
de Música de Ávila, Spain
Steven Schlicker GVSU
Brian Stanley
Foothill Community College
Robert Talbert
GVSU
Greg Thull
GVSU
Sue Van Hattum Contra Costa College
Acknowledgments
This text began as my sabbatical project in the winter semester of 2012, during which I
wrote the preponderance of the materials for the first four chapters. For the sabbatical
leave, I am indebted to Grand Valley State University for its support of the project and
the time to write, as well as to my colleagues in the Department of Mathematics and the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for their endorsement of the project as a valuable
undertaking.
The beautiful full-color .eps graphics in the text are only possible because of David
Austin of GVSU and Bill Casselman of the University of British Columbia. Building on
their collective longstanding efforts to develop tools for high quality mathematical graphics,
David wrote a library of Python routines that build on Bill’s PiScript program (available
via http://gvsu.edu/s/bi), and David’s routines are so easy to use that even I could
generate graphics like the professionals that he and Bill are. I am deeply grateful to them
both.
For the print-on-demand version of the text (see http://gvsu.edu/s/xr/), I am
thankful for the support of Lon Mitchell and Orthogonal Publishing L3C. Lon has provided
considerable guidance on L A T E X and related typesetting issues, and has volunteered his
time throughout the production process. I met Lon at a special session devoted to
open textbooks at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings; I am grateful as well to the
organizers of that session who are part of a growing community of mathematicians
committed to free and open texts. You can start to learn more about their work at
http://www.openmathbook.org/ and http://aimath.org/textbooks/.
Over my more than 15 years at GVSU, many of my colleagues have shared with me
ideas and resources for teaching calculus. I am particularly indebted to David Austin,
Will Dickinson, Paul Fishback, Jon Hodge, and Steve Schlicker for their contributions that
improved my teaching of and thinking about calculus, including materials that I have
Contributing Editors:
Mitch Keller
Washington & Lee University
Dave Kung
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Paul Latiolais
Portland State College
Hugh McGuire
GVSU
Ray Rosentrater Westmont College
Luis Sanjuan
Conservatorio Profesional
de Música de Ávila, Spain
Steven Schlicker GVSU
Brian Stanley
Foothill Community College
Robert Talbert
GVSU
Greg Thull
GVSU
Sue Van Hattum Contra Costa College
Acknowledgments
This text began as my sabbatical project in the winter semester of 2012, during which I
wrote the preponderance of the materials for the first four chapters. For the sabbatical
leave, I am indebted to Grand Valley State University for its support of the project and
the time to write, as well as to my colleagues in the Department of Mathematics and the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for their endorsement of the project as a valuable
undertaking.
The beautiful full-color .eps graphics in the text are only possible because of David
Austin of GVSU and Bill Casselman of the University of British Columbia. Building on
their collective longstanding efforts to develop tools for high quality mathematical graphics,
David wrote a library of Python routines that build on Bill’s PiScript program (available
via http://gvsu.edu/s/bi), and David’s routines are so easy to use that even I could
generate graphics like the professionals that he and Bill are. I am deeply grateful to them
both.
For the print-on-demand version of the text (see http://gvsu.edu/s/xr/), I am
thankful for the support of Lon Mitchell and Orthogonal Publishing L3C. Lon has provided
considerable guidance on L A T E X and related typesetting issues, and has volunteered his
time throughout the production process. I met Lon at a special session devoted to
open textbooks at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings; I am grateful as well to the
organizers of that session who are part of a growing community of mathematicians
committed to free and open texts. You can start to learn more about their work at
http://www.openmathbook.org/ and http://aimath.org/textbooks/.
Over my more than 15 years at GVSU, many of my colleagues have shared with me
ideas and resources for teaching calculus. I am particularly indebted to David Austin,
Will Dickinson, Paul Fishback, Jon Hodge, and Steve Schlicker for their contributions that
improved my teaching of and thinking about calculus, including materials that I have