Life of Fred: Calculus Expanded Edition
This is cheap! You gotta be kidding.
Is Life of Fred: Calculus some kind of workbook or a paperback brief overview of the easy parts of freshman calculus?
No. Life of Fred: Calculus Expanded Edition is a hardback textbook that covers all of freshman and sophomore college calculus.
It is complete.
Look at other textbooks. Do they cover . . .
- First order differential equations? (Six method: variables separable, homogeneous, first order linear, Bernoulli's, exact, and integrating factors)
- Second order differential equations? (Two types)
- Vector calculus including the three major theorem: Green's theorem, Divergence theorem, and Stokes's theorem? (Easy way to check: Look for Green's theorem in their indexes.)
It is motivating.
Every aspect of calculus first appears in Fred's life, and only then do we do the math.
It is fun.
Fred is born on the first page of the book. Some read the book just for the story line.
It's cheap.
I could triple the price and still be far under everyone else. Here's some examples from Amazon.com that I recently pulled up. Many of these are not complete calculus books. (Do they have Green's theorem, etc.?)
Life of Fred: Calculus is First Edition. It was written right the first time.
Calculus (With Analytic Geometry)(8th edition) by Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler and Bruce H. Edwards (Hardcover - Jan 11, 2005)
$245.95
Calculus: A Complete Course (2nd Edition) by Ross L. Finney, Franklin D. Demana, Bert K. Waits and Daniel Kennedy (Hardcover - Nov 14, 1999)
$250.00
Calculus: A New Horizon, Combined, 6th Edition by Howard Anton (Hardcover - Aug 13, 1998)
$141.10
Calculus by James Stewart (Hardcover - Jan 1, 2011)
$224.95
Calculus Late Transcendentals Combined, Ninth Edition by Howard Anton, Irl C. Bivens and Stephen Davis (Hardcover - Mar 9, 2009)
$166.15
Calculus: Concepts and Contexts (Stewart's Calculus Series) by James Stewart (Hardcover - Mar 9, 2009)
$228.95
Thomas' Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Media Upgrade (11th Edition) by George B. Thomas, Maurice D. Weir, Joel Hass and Frank R. Giordano (Hardcover - Jan 14, 2007)
$192.00
Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences and Social Sciences (11th Edition) by Raymond A. Barnett, Michael R. Ziegler and Karl E. Byleen (Hardcover - Mar 29, 2007)
$153.33
Calculus: Single Variable by Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, William G. McCallum and David O. Lomen (Paperback - Dec 3, 2008)
$130.40
Calculus of a Single Variable by Ron Larson and Bruce H. Edwards (Hardcover - Nov 10, 2008)
$210.95
Calculus: Early Transcendentals (Briggs/Cochran Calculus) by William L. Briggs and Lyle Cochran (Hardcover - Jan 15, 2010)
$192.00
Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions by Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler and Bruce H. Edwards (Hardcover - Jan 3, 2006)
$263.95
Thomas' Calculus Early Transcendentals (12th Edition) (Thomas' Calculus 12th Edition) by George B. Thomas, Maurice D. Weir and Joel Hass (Hardcover - Dec 13, 2009)
$192.00
Calculus and its Applications (11th Edition) by Larry J. Goldstein, David I. Schneider, David I. Lay and Nakhle H. Asmar (Hardcover - Jan 7, 2006)
$153.33
Calculus with Applications (9th Edition) by Margaret L. Lial, Raymond N. Greenwell and Nathan P. Ritchey (Hardcover - Nov 12, 2007)
$153.33
Calculus (9th Edition) by Dale Varberg, Edwin Purcell and Steve Rigdon (Hardcover - Mar 10, 2006)
$137.33
Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Edition by Laurence Hoffmann and Gerald Bradley (Hardcover - Jan 1, 2009)
$143.23
Many of these were written by committees. I could never figure that out.
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