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AMS Open Math Notes

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Overview:: This site provides users with high quality, free, downloadable, in-progress math resources such as lecture notes and textbooks – intended for researchers, teachers and students. Authors of the available resources can update/edit their resources and publish them later if they wish. Users can contact authors.
Type of Material:: Collection.
Recommended Uses:: Supplemental materials, study guides, assignments for both undergraduate and graduate math courses.
Technical Requirements:: It is HTML site with lots of clickable links, and references to the authors of the available math resources. Users can access this site using any browser.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: To provide a service to researchers, instructors, and students in terms of high-quality draft mathematical works to be used in classes and for developing research. Students can used them as study guides for their math courses or as supplementary resources to their math classes.
Target Student Population:: Students at colleges and universities who are taking math courses at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Basic lower undergraduate math courses.

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Strengths:: This site contains a collection of excellent draft lecture notes and textbooks suitable as supplementary resources for both undergraduate and graduate level math courses. The user can select standard course, topics course , research monograph or short topic. In addition, those resources are very helpful for researchers to use them for developing and improving in progress research works. All content is reviewed and approved by AMS editors. As works in progress, these are living documents.
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Strengths:: Both instructors and students can easily use this site in most undergraduate and graduate math courses, due to the huge amount of available math resources categorized by their related area/field. Students can use them as study guides for exams or references for math courses’ assignments and projects. Instructors can use those resources as projects, assignments, or further readings resources related to their math courses. Students would probably benefit from instructor assistance in the best way to search and locate material.
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Strengths:: Students and instructors can access the material in this site easily using all the clickable links and references. They can send their feedbacks or suggestions to the authors of those math resources using the available clickable link “ Send feedback to the author(s) ”. Authors also can benefit from this feature to edit/update their draft works. There is a sophisticated advanced search tool that includes search by level, note type and topic (although curiously, for example “calculus” does not appear as a topic option for undergraduate level). Notes can often be downloaded as pdf or zip files.
Concerns:: None.