Fred goes on a picnic with his two best friends. Find out about…
• Selling Fred’s fountain pens door-to-door
• Jackie’s life as a police officer
• Lee’s shopping sprees at the fishing store
and even some heavy duty linear algebra, including…
Solving systems of equations with one, many, and no solutions
Gauss-Jordan elimination
Gaussian elimination
Matrices
LU-decomposition
Vector spaces
Inner product spaces
Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization process
Fourier series. Data fitting
Linear Transformations
Linear functionals
Dual spaces
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Markov chains
All answers are included in the textbook.
The Life of Fred homeschool math books cover math topics appropriate for kindergarteners all the way up to third year of college, including arithmetic, fractions and decimals, algebra, geometry, calculus, and everything in between.
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. Each hardcover textbook contains ALL of the material – more than most instructors cover in traditional classroom settings. Includes tons of proofs.
Written by Dr. Stanley Schmidt with the intent to make math come alive with lots of humour, clear explanations, and silly illustrations that stick in the mind. The student will learn to think mathematically.
Completion of this series prepares student for third year college math.