A First Course in Linear Algebra

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Open-Source Textbooks

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Instead I am concentrating recommendations and examples within the undergraduate mathematics curriculum, so please visit the Open Math Curriculum page. If you are linking to this site, please use that page for a broad list, or link to linear.pugetsound.edu specifically for the Linear Algebra text. Thanks for your help publicizing open textbooks.


This page contains some links to similar open-source textbooks. Notice however that a book that is free to download, but with a copyright that reserves the author's rights, is not really free. For a book to have freedom, the copyright holder needs to grant the text additional freedoms through a license that makes these conditions explicit. For this reason, I have included some links to different licenses and essays on open-source.

Free Textbooks

Freedom

Some thoughts on open-content, intellectual property, open-source software and books.

Sources of Open-Content

Licensing Open-Content

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