The Authors

Arthur Erdélyi, Dr. Ver. Nat., D.Sc., Professor of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology

Bernard Friedman, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

John W. Miles, Ph.D., Professor of Engineering and Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles

Ralph S. Phillips, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

J. Barkley Rosser, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University

William Feller, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University

David Blackwell, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Richard Bellman, Ph.D., Research Mathematician, The RAND Corporation

George B. Dantzig, Ph.D., Research Mathematician, The RAND Corporation

Samuel Karlin, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University

Stanislaw M. Ulam, Ph.D., Research Advisor, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Raymond Redheffer, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ph.D., Sc.D., Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Chicago

Paul R. Garabedian, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics, New York University

David Young, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Computation Center, University of Texas

George Pólya, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University