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No definite integration or infinite series in Worldwide Differential Calculus?

February 16th, 2010

This is a common question about why definite integration and infinite series are not covered in Worldwide Differential Calculus.  The answer is quite simple, the second volume in the Worldwide Calculus series – “Worldwide Integral Calculus, with Infinite Series” will cover both topics, although there is “warm-up” material covered in Worldwide Differential Calculus as professor Massey notes in the preface.

More from the preface-

“When discussing polynomial functions, in Section 2.1, we introduce the sigma notation for summations. Our approach to the exponential function in Section 2.4 requires us to briefly discuss sequences of numbers and functions, geometric series, and power series. In addition, while we use a traditional approach to defining, and working with, sine and cosine, we discuss their power series at the end of Section 2.7. It is our hope that these introductions to summations, sequences, and series will make those topics more comprehensible when they are dealt with in depth in Worldwide Integral Calculus, with Infinite Series.”

Hope this helps answer this question, any more questions or for further explanation please email us.

Real or quasi…? Just announced talk next Friday – Professor Trevisan

January 29th, 2010

Professor Trevisan just told us he’s passing through town and he would be available for a lecture….of course we took him up on his offer!  Cookies and coffee started at 3:30pm and the talk begins at 4:00pm February 5, 2010.

Abstract: Real quasi-toric manifolds are topological spaces having well-behaved torus actions and combinatorially rich quotient spaces. They are closely related to toric varieties, e.g., the set of real points of a smooth projective toric variety is a real quasi-toric manifold. Their mod 2 homology is well-understood, but virtually nothing is known about integral homology. In this talk I will outline a strategy for computing the Betti numbers of a real quasi-toric manifold. The techniques used draw inspiration from Fox’s free calculus and the representation theory of finite groups.

See the flyer for more details.

Hope to see everyone there.

New Services at WWCoM – Lecture recording and production

January 28th, 2010

This week we have announced new services here at The Worldwide Center of Mathematics – recording and producing individual lectures or entire courses and putting them online.  As many of you know, we have been recording and producing lecture videos for our textbooks as well as our research lectures and now the center is producing for professors outside lecturers.

Take a look at the lecture suite.

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We can accommodate an audience of 25 persons, and is equipped with state-of-the-art lighting, sound, and video recording equipment, as well as an editing room.

Availability is limited, priority will be on a first-come-first-served basis.

Contact us for more details, availability, cost, and other accommodations.

Amazon to launch App Store for Kindle

January 22nd, 2010

From Mashable.com -

“All eyes are on Apple as the company prepares to unveil its Tablet device next week. But the dominant force in the e-reader market — Amazon — is about to shake things up in a major way by announcing what amounts to an app store for Kindle.” more

As most of you know, Worldwide Differential Calculus is available as a PDF and can be viewed on the new Kindle DX. Unfortunately older versions have no PDF capabilities…but I’ve heard there is a conversion program available.

We’re looking for feedback from people who have used the new Kindle DX. Please let us know!

Twitter account live – get your Worldwide Center of Mathematics updates

January 18th, 2010

The Worldwide Center of Mathematics, LLC twitter account is live – user name – @centerofmath.

We intend to keep you posted with recent news, updates, random topics, and of course anything relevant regarding low-cost textbooks.

Lulu.com store live!

January 16th, 2010

As promised there are now black and white copies available for purchase. Lulu.com is a fantastic site, check it out.

Creative Commons/Google Book Settlement

November 17th, 2009

As many of you know from the information on our web site, we publish under a Creative Commons license, which is essentially an open source for our content. It definitely seems like the new wave in publishing.

Great article on the Google Book settlement as well as more information on Creative Commons.

New book cover – Worldwide Differential Calculus

November 13th, 2009

Worldwide Differential Calculus book cover

Worldwide Differential Calculus book cover

Hi there, just wanted to post the new book cover so everyone could take a look. We went through many iterations and we finally decided on one we REALLY like…hopefully you will to.

Any comments are welcome!

A new approach to publishing: licensing

November 13th, 2009

So, here at the Worldwide Center of Mathematics we are not just interested in how much the world of mathematics revolves around us…but more importantly we are interested in changing the textbook publishing industry one book at a time.

We have introduced a new way to use our first book, Worldwide Differential Calculus, you can license the source files to create your own custom edition, at a very low cost per student. In fact, your dept. can make a profit by printing and selling its own book. Or use the text as it is – it’s free online, and printed copies are a fraction of the standard textbook price.

Cool, huh?

Video Solution Guide

November 12th, 2009

So, we are in the process of developing a video solution guide for Worldwide Differential Calculus.  As you may know, we have hour long lecture videos for each section of the textbook which cover many of the example problems in the book but student and professor feedback prompted us to explore a video solution guide.  Thanks for the suggestion, keep them coming!

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