[EAS]Free Text Books

pjk pjk at design.eng.yale.edu
Sat Dec 21 16:42:00 EST 2002


Subject:   Free Text Books

Dear Colleagues -

This is the latest free text book on the Web that has come to my
attention. There are quite a few others. You owe it to your students
who usually spend well over $100 on a single course text to be aware
of appropriate free options when they are available from members of
the academic community who believe in sharing.

Previous EAS-INFO mailings related to this topic ar
http://jove.eng.yale.edu/pipermail/eas-info/2001/000310.html
http://www.yale.edu/engineering/eng-info/msg00479.html
http://www.yale.edu/engineering/eng-info/msg00722.html

All best,  --PJK

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(from The NSDL Scout Report -- December 20, 2002)

Allen Hatcher [.pdf, .ps]
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/
Allen Hatcher is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University. On
his home page, he offers a link to download his book "Algebraic
Topology" in its entirety. Published in 2002, the book is over 500
pages in length and is free to anyone wanting a personal copy. In
addition to Algebraic Topology, there are three other books that are
work-in-progress. Despite being incomplete, they could be useful to
students in related classes. Several research papers written by
Professor Hatcher are also given on this site.




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