Textbook in PDF format Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Brian Adams Senior Member of Technical Staff Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation; Sandia National Laboratories Jeffrey Zane Anderson Industrial Engineer; Commonwealth Aluminum Corporation #Alysia Appell Senior Analyst; Northwest Airlines P. Darcy Barnett Computer Scientist; National Institute of Standards and Technology Carl M. Beaird Mathematician; Rockwell International Corporation Cherryl Beeman Electronic Commerce Specialist; The Kodiak Group Betsy Bennett Private School Teacher; St. Albans School, Washington, DC #Nick Bennett Research Scientist; Schlumberger Jonathan G. Blattmachr Partner; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York and Los Angeles #Mary Bonar Emergency Medicine Physician; Pinnacle Hospital, Harrisburg, PA Ron Bousquet R&D Project Manager; Hewlett-Packard Company Margaret L. Brandeau Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering; Stanford University Judith R. Brown Manager, Advanced Research Computing Services; The University of Iowa Denise Cammarata Senior Engineer; Westinghouse Wireless Solutions Company Cora L. Carmody Manager of Systems Engineering; PRC, Inc. Jessie Caruso Senior Systems Integrator; CollabraSpace, Inc. Jack Cassidy Engineer Scientist, Firmware; Hewlett-Packard Shane Chalke Actuary/Business Owner; Chalke, Inc. Judith E. Chapman Senior Software Engineer; Harris Scientific Calculations Samson Cheung Research Scientist; MCAT Institute, NASA Ames Research Center Yves Chiricota Professor; Université du Québec á Chicoutimi #Megan Christensen Risk Analyst; Travelers Insurance #Andrea Cook Employee Benefits Consultant; Plante & Moran, PLLC James L. Cooley Aerospace Mathematician; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mary K. Cooney Mathematics Editor; Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jeff Cooper Corporate Technical Developer; P.H. Glatfelter Company Joe Corrigan Project Mathematics! H. Michael Covert Senior Computer Systems Specialist; Chemical Abstracts Service Sarah Cullen Senior Professional Relations Representative; Bay State Health Care Allison DeLong Marine Research Associate; University of Rhode Island Janet P. DenBleyker Assistant Actuary; Buck Consultants Mark Derwin Susan J. Devlin Director–Measurements Research; Bellcore J. Wanzer Drane Professor of Biostatistics; University of South Carolina School of Public Health Arnitra Duckett Educational Markets Manager; Texas Instruments, Incorporated Paula Duckett Elementary School Mathematics Specialist Yawa Duse-Anthony Senior Associate; KKO and Associates M. Scott Elliott Operations Research Analyst; FedEx Corporation #Katie Evans Assistant Professor; Louisiana Tech University Helaman Ferguson Sculptor Rol Fessenden Director of Inventory Control; L.L. Bean #Kathie Flood 84 Program Manager; Microsoft Games Studio #Sara Ford Software Design Engineer in Test; Microsoft Corporation Richard D. Fuhr Senior Engineer; Electronic Data Systems Holly Gaff Graduate Research Associate; University of Tennessee Marshall B. Garrison Principal Software Engineer; PictureTel Corporation #Allen Gibson Instructor; Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University Ruth Gonzalez Research Specialist; Exxon Production Research Company Douglas A. Gray Senior Consultant; American Airlines Decision Technologies Cynthia Carter Haddock Professor and Academic Program Director; University of Alabama at Birmingham Charles R. Hadlock Professor of Mathematics; Bentley College Charles Hagwood Mathematician; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) John F. Hamilton Research Associate; Eastman Kodak Company William D. Hammers Chief Financial Officer; Optimal Solutions #Jeff Hand Senior Physics Engineer; Raytheon Carl M. Harris Professor and Operations Researcher; George Mason University Mary Hesselgrave Distinguished Member of Technical Staff; Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Jerry W. Highfill Mathematical Statistician; United States Environmental Protection Laboratory #Matthew D. Janssen Commercial Litigation Attorney; Pepper Hamilton LLP Richard Järvinen Professor and Consultant; Winona State University and NASA #Captain C.J. Jaynes PMA 213 Program Manager; United States Navy Denise Ann Johnston Instructor and Consultant on Quality Control ; Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Patricia H. Jones Professor and Chair; Methodist College Marcia P. Kastner Research Scientist; Akamai Technologies, Inc. Sherra E. Kerns Professor and Chair; Vanderbilt University Gary Kim Accounting Manager; Perdue Farms Incorporated #Greg King Teacher; Dublin City Schools Kay Strain King Senior Environmental Mathematician; Theta Engineering, Inc. Karen M. Kneisel Project Manager; Otis Elevator Company #John Kuchenbrod Project Team Manager; The MITRE Corporation Janice A. Kulle Senior Product Actuary; The Baltimore Life Insurance Company Kimberly A. Kuntz Senior Systems Engineer; Electronic Data Systems Michael H. Kutner Chairman, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology; The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Donna F. Lawson Economist; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Christopher M. Legault Research Fishery Biologist; NOAA Fisheries Loren Mernoff Lewin Senior Systems Engineer; Telcordia Technologies Mike Lieber Biostatistician; Cleveland Clinic Foundation Peter A. Lindstrom Retired Professor of Mathematics; North Lake College #Dan Loeb Quantitative Research Department; Susquehanna International Group Tammy M. Lofton Actuarial Assistant; Nationwide Insurance Company #Valerie Lopez-Zinzer, A.S.A Actuarial Associate; Watson Wyatt Christopher M. Luczynski Senior Associate Engineer; Mask House, IBM #Chad Magers Scientist; Naval Surface Warfare Center Carol J. Mandell Market Researcher; Corporate Software, Inc. #Carla D. Martin Assistant Professor; James Madison University Patrick Dale McCray Systems Project Leader; G.D. Searle & Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto Jennifer E. McLean Member of Technical Staff; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Juan C. Meza Numerical Analyst; Sandia National Laboratories Michael G. Monticino Associate Professor; University of North Texas S. Brent Morris Mathematician; National Security Agency William D. Murphy Applied Mathematician ; Rockwell International Science Center Michael J. Murray Java Developer; IBM Global Services Deenanne Kay Myers Product Analyst; AIG Specialty Auto Joan Peters Ogden Consulting Actuary; Joan Ogden Actuaries Edna Lee Paisano Statistician; Bureau of the Census #Amanda Peterson Modeling and Simulation Analyst; Dynamic Research Corporation Bruce A. Powell Manager, Group Control; Otis Elevator Company Marla Prenger Associate Scientist; Procter and Gamble Edward H. Preston Sr. Information Systems Engineer; MITRETEK Systems, Inc. Fred L. Preston Systems Engineer; Lucent Technologies Diane R. Purcell Financial Analyst; KeyCorp #Amanda Quiring Project Manager; International Accounting Standards Board Laura Readdy Advanced Systems Engineer; Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) Brian D. Repp Senior Data Math Analyst; Bendix Field Engineering Corporation Mark A. Reynolds Operations Research Manager; USAir, Inc. Nancy K. Roderer Director; Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University Peter Rosenthal Professor; University of Toronto David S. Ross Research Associate; Eastman Kodak Company Edward Rothstein Cultural Critic-At-Large; New York Times Christine Rutch Associate Statistician; Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Bonita V. Saunders Mathematician; National Institute of Standards and Technology Julie Scarpa Mathematics Product Manager; Prentice Hall School Division Jeffrey A. Schneider Secondary Mathematics Teacher; Eden Prairie High School Joel Schneider Vice President for Education and Research; Square One TV: Children’s Television Workshop Deborah A. Southan Scientific Systems Programmer; Bendix Field Engineering Corporation Mitchell Stabbe Partner; Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC Arthur P. Staddon Clinical Associate Professor; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine #Courtney Stephens Senior Commercial Analyst; The Americas Marathon Oil Company Robert L. Stewart NASA Astronaut/Director of Advanced Programs; Nichols Research Corporation Mary Kay Esworthy Stiles Marketing Specialist/Claims Manager; Riedman Insurance Kathy Haas Stukus Member Technical Staff; AT&T Network Systems Lisa M. Sullivan Senior Budget Analyst; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy Elizabeth Sweet Mathematical Statistician; Bureau of the Census Julie S. Tarwater Quality Control Manager; Biles & Associates Debra W. Taufen Marketing Manager; IBM Corporation Frederick C. Taverner District Systems Engineering Manager; Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mark P. Terry Systems Engineer; Trident Systems Incorporated Jill L. Tolle Senior Statistician; I.M.S. America Lisa M. Tonder Principal Statistician; Medtronic, Inc. #Jane Turnbull Assistant Vice President; Equifax Sue E. Waldman Mathematician; US Department of Agriculture #Rodney B. Wallace Technical Solutions Manager; IBM Martha Weeks Computer Marketing Consultant; Self-employed Benjamin E. Weiss Imaging Scientist; MetaCreations Corp. Faedra Lazar Weiss Research Associate; Girls Incorporated National Research Center Michael D. Weiss Agricultural Economist; US Department of Agriculture Gary L. Welz Director of Corporate Business Development; THINK New Ideas Dan C. White Actuary Paul Willoughby Lead Software Analyst; PRB-COMPTEK Systems Sandra L. Winkler Research Scientist; Ford Motor Company Sarah Adams Yeary Technical Lead; Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management #James W. Yen Area Development Manager; GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines #Joyce W. Yen Program/Research Manager; ADVANCE Program, University of Washington Yvonne Zhou Software Engineer; Cray Research, Inc. Yaromyr Andrew Zinkewych Troubleshooter; Hubble Space Telescope Paul Zorn Professor; St. Olaf College Appendices Seven Steps to Finding a Job Interviewing Tips from the Pros So You Want to Work in Industry Teamwork—The Special Challenge of Industry Degrees Earned by Mathematics Majors |