Life of Fred: Calculus Expanded Edition

Dr. Stanley Schmidt

Never again hear the question which many math students have: “When are we ever gonna use this stuff?” or “Math is boring!”

No other textbooks are like these. Each text is written in the style of a novel with a humorous story line. Each section tells part of the life of Fred Gauss and how, in the course of his life, he encounters the need for the math and then learns the methods. Tons of solved examples.


All of Calculus! Sixteen college semester units including:

Multi-variable Calculus

Analytic Geometry

Vector Calculus

Differential Equations

All fun! Just open & enjoy.


Functions, Limits, Speed, Slope, Derivatives, Concavity, Trig, Related Rates, Curvature, Integrals, Area, Work, Centroids, Logs, Conics, Infinite Series, Solids of Revolution, Polar Coordinates, Hyperbolic Trig, Vectors, Partial Derivatives, Double Integrals, Vector Calculus, Differential Equations.