).
With respect to the previously published precursor of this book [79], I would like to again express appreciation to John Strawn for his thorough editing assistance, and to Andy Schloss, David Jaffe, Andy Moorer, Janet Coursey, and Ken Shoemake for their helpful proofreading and suggestions. More recently, thanks to Vivian Woo and Matt Wright for especially helpful reviewing assistance, and to Chris Apple, Andrew Best, Mark Cartwright, Ryan Cassidy, Humane Chan, Nick Dargahi, David Gelbart, Kris Godart, David Grunzweig, Peter Howard, Thomas Icking, Tim Janik, Christian Keil, Moonseok Kim, Arvindh Krishnaswamy, Andrew Leary, Dong In Lee, Poliang Lin, Gautham Mysore, Jim Murphy, Juhan Nam, John Nolting, Carlos Pita, Mathew Romaine, Volker Schatz, Richard Shadbolt, Andrew Simper, Lee Soulsby, Joseph Tilbian, Sook Young Won, and Larry Wu, for reporting errata they encountered in the earlier draft versions of this book, and thanks to Ricci Adams for helping with the math rendering quality in the online version.
The support of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation during my graduate
student years--when [79] was written--is gratefully
acknowledged. Finally, the present version would not exist at all
without the support of my wife Carol and son Harrison (who made
sure I took plenty of breaks along the way
).
Julius Smith
September, 2007
