Introduction
Welcome to the SageMathCloud Calculus Tutorial! From initial concepts to increasingly complex techniques and applications, this tutorial is meant to accompany a high school- or college-level beginning calculus course. No previous experience with SageMath or calculus is necessary. If you would first like to brush up on some pre-calculus and trigonometry concepts, this review may be of help.
For any comments, suggestions, or questions, please write to Cody Ryu, the custodian of this tutorial, at [email protected].
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Acknowledgements
A growing number of people have contributed their insight and advice to this tutorial. Not only does this give the tutorial greater polish; it encourages me, your author, to keep writing. Thank you!
Elliott Brossard, for creating the SageMath Calculus tutorial, from which this document is derived.
kcrisman, for being the first to give an in-depth critique.
Harald Schilly, for providing HTML and JavaScript coding advice.
Ron Ninnis, for suggesting and outlining a review on transformations.
Minh Nguyen, for an invaluable and thoroughly detailed critique of the tutorial.
Elliot Brossard's two sources of summer funding, the Mary Gates Endowment and the SageMath Foundation, for making this project possible.
The SageMath development team, for giving students, teachers, professors, researchers, and engineers everywhere the means to conduct mathematics-related research and study in an extensible, free, and open-source environment.
And finally you, my reader, for giving me an audience.