What a Difference 30 Years Makes! Adventures in Mathematics Textbook Publishing Ken Levasseur Mathematical Sciences University of Massachusetts Lowell Google: Applied Discrete Structures

Applied Discrete Structures for Computer Science by Al Doerr and Ken Levasseur 1 st Edition, 1984 SRA 2 nd Edition, 1989 SRA  Macmillan 1 st Edition: written on a Wang Word Processor 2 nd Edition: OCR of 1 st Ed and edited with Word and MathType SRA : “no TeX” Features included Pascal and Ada “notes” No internet or computer algebra system By 2010: out of print for years, copyright held by Pearson, but it had been moderately successful while in print.

Contents Available in separately or together in pdf or hard copy (lulu.com) Part 1 Chapter 1: Set Theory I Chapter 2: Combinatorics Chapter 3: Logic Chapter 4: More on Sets Chapter 5: Introduction to Matrix Algebra Chapter 6: Relations and Graphs Chapter 7: Functions Chapter 8: Recursion and Recurrence Relations Chapter 9: Graph Theory Chapter 10: Trees Part 2 Chapter 11: Algebraic Systems Chapter 12: More Matrix Algebra Chapter 13: Boolean Algebra Chapter 14: Monoids and Automata Chapter 15: Group Theory and Applications Chapter 16: An Introduction to Rings and Fields

Genesis of our current project Sage Education Day, Cambridge 2009, Rob Beezer and others talking about open content textbooks. Al Doerr and I agreed to track down the copyright holder, Pearson and ask for the rights. They granted it, no questions asked! One condition: Include “Formally published as…” on title page. We then decided to solve our students’ $150 textbook problem.

Conversion to Applied Discrete Structures Scan pages of 1989 edition o Text: Reasonable accuracy o Notation: Terrible o Figures: Poor Import into Mathematica o Lots of editing - some student help o Replace Pascal and Ada with Mathematica and Sage. o Upload.nb and.pdf files to wiki. Student assistants: first pass, fixing obvious problems

Supplementary Materials Original editions: Instructors’ Manual only. Creative Commons Edition o Wiki o Videos o Mathematica and Sage Demonstrations o Blog Under consideration o WeBWork collection

Getting the word out 12 month span – top external sources of hits to our site. 510 Hits: aimath.org/textbooks/ (American Institute of Mathematics) 235 Hits: sagemath.org/library-publications.html 459 Hits: google.com/ (Searchs such as “Applied Discrete Structures”) 184 Hits: buzzard.ups.edu/courses (Rob Beezer) 93 Hits: collegeopentextbooks.org 39 Hits: Merlot.org

Outside Adoptions Winter/Spring 2014 –Grand Valley State University Fall 2013 –Casper College (WY) –UMass Dartmouth –Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania –Wright College (IL) - City Colleges of Chicago –Valencia College (FL) –Whittier College (CA) Spring 2013 –Grinnell College (IA) –Luzurne Community College (PA) –University of the Puget Sound (WA)

Economic Impact: at least $36,500 in 2013 At UMass Lowell $22, students Previous Text: $150 Roughly 10% buy the Lulu version for $30 External Users $14,000 Very conservative estimate based on partial information from survey on LimeService.com Some courses are hidden behind systems like Blackboard