If you are one of the many people who are intimidated and baffled by mathematics, this book is for you.  Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus by Silvanus P. Thompson has been considered “a classic and elegant Introduction to the subject” of infinitesimal calculus ever since its initial publication in 1910.  Written for British students, the concepts are presented in simple, clear terms in an accessible, conversational style with a dash of wry humor thrown in for good measure.  Each chapter is accompanied by problem sets that further illuminate the concepts and that students seem to enjoy working through. Many report that they are awakened to the genius of calculus and thoroughly delighted by their ability to finally understand an often intimidating discipline.

From the Prologue…

Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics—and they are mostly clever fools—seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way. Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.