Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Larry Goldstein has received several distinguished teaching awards given more than fifty Conference and Colloquium talks & addresses and written more than fifty books in math and computer programming.   He received his PhD at Princeton and his BA and MA at the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches part time at Drexel University.   David Lay holds a BA from Aurora University (Illinois) and an MA and PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles. David Lay has been an educator and research mathematician since 1966 mostly at the University of Maryland College Park. He has published more than 30 research articles on functional analysis and linear algebra and he has written several popular textbooks. Lay has received four university awards for teaching excellence including in 1996 the title of Distinguished ScholarTeacher of the University of Maryland. In 1994 he was given one of the Mathematical Association of America's Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. Since 1992 he has served several terms on the national board of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences.   David Schneider who is known widely for his tutorial software holds a BA degree from Oberlin College and a PhD from MIT. He is currently an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. He has authored eight widely used math texts fourteen highly acclaimed computer books and three widely used mathematics software packages. He has also produced instructional videotapes at both the University of Maryland and the BBC.   Nakhle Asmar received his PhD from the University of Washington. He is currently a professor of mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of Missouri Columbia. He is the author and coauthor of widely used calculus texts as well as textbooks on complex analysis partial differential equations and Fourier series. He has received several awards for outstanding teaching. His popular textbooks have been translated into Chinese and Portuguese. . Language: English