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MIT OCW certainly is a start. The lectures will certainly help a lot in ways the textbook could not.

Then for reading material you could use some or all of these (if you like it chewed up for you):

http://www.jirka.org/ra/

http://www.webskate101.com/webnotes/home.htmld/home.html

http://www.trillia.com/zakon-analysisI.html

If you can deal with non linear information even Wikipedia has very extensive articles on Analysis. You can start from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_analysis

Or MathWorld:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/classroom/Analysis.html

Indeed, I am reading through the Real Analysis one to see.

A math buddy of mine has wanted to write a textbook for years as a big Middle Finger to the establishment. I like the model here. The Real Analysis book, at least, is free for teachers and self-teaching students. Available for a small fee for the classroom. See publisher http://trillia.com/.

Props to you, Trillia!

Some no cost resources that I don't think were mentioned:

A three part self-test/review of fundamental Calculus skills. The first 6 questions in the part on Trig, Logs and Limits are prerequisites to a first course in elementary calculus.

A collection of articles with intuitive explanations of math concepts many people find too abstract.

A textbook, "Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach", available under a creative commons by-nc-sa license. Covers Calculus I/II material.

A collection of texts covering a sequence in Real Analysis (covers calculus concepts from an analytical point of view) and Number Theory available under a free of charge license to students using it for self-study. Probably beyond your current interest in math.

For example, although Ben Crowell, the original poster, doesn't mention it, he himself founded The Assayer, a site that lists free books, carries reader reviews, etc.

Since 2001, I've been publishing a number of original mathematics textbooks as ebooks at the Trillia Group, all of which are DRM-free and freely licensed for student's self study. I'd hoped to license the "bits", rather than use dead trees as DRM, and have universities buy perpetual site licenses for $300. That business model hasn't worked; American universities are used to paying nothing for the textbooks they use in the classroom (even the books that the professors and teaching assistants use to teach the course are given to the universities free by the publishers), and for the most part the universities can't comprehend transferring the small cost for a site license for a text from the students to themselves.

Some academic publishers, including Cambridge University Press, allow some of their mathematics authors to distribute texts freely on the web even while the book is published in hard-cover editions. Perhaps this will become more common in the future.

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~sean/book.html http://www.trillia.com/zakon1.html

I learned everything I needed to know about the fundamentals of mathematics from the Zakon series: http://www.trillia.com/products.html

Brad Lucier at Purdue founded an online publishing group called Trillia, which does something similar.
He has submitted a related story on Slashdot before.

I don't know where you get your stats, but it's 8% that don't use IE

Well, I don't know where you get your stats, either. On my publishing site MSIE[456] accounted for 76% of my hits in August. And that's including artificially high hit counts because IE is tremendously more likely to send multiple 206 requests for a single file. Don't believe the MSIE propaganda.

memorize this
and you will be well on your way to proving the riemann conjecture...

Shameless plug: I started an online publishing company that distributes PDF texts free of charge for students' self-study. Our first book is designed to help the student move on from Calculus to more rigorous mathematics.

Shameless plug: I started an online publishing company that distributes PDF texts free of charge for students' self-study. Our first book is designed to help the student move on from Calculus to more rigorous mathematics.