Author’s Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Matt Wagner of Fresh Books, Inc., for approaching me with the
offer of writing this book; Lindsay Lefevere, who was my initial contact at Wiley and got
the ball rolling; Chrissy Guthrie at Wiley for being such an easy and accommodating
person to work with on this project; and Mary Jane Sterling, who was my mentor for
the project and gave much-appreciated and encouraging feedback early on. In addition,
I would like to give an absolute booming shout out of gratitude to Jeane Wenzel, who
typed up many, many pages of messy handwritten notes and did a fabulous job of proofing the work both mathematically and grammatically.