Elliott Mendelson is the late professor emeritus at Queens College in Flushing, New York, USA. Dr. Mendelson obtained his bachelor's at Columbia University and his master's and doctoral degrees at Cornell University and was elected afterward to the Harvard Society of Fellows. In addition to his other writings, he is the author of another CRC Press book, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Sixth Edition.

Dan Zwillinger has more than 35 years of proven technical expertise in numerous areas of engineering and the physical sciences. He earned a PhD in applied mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. He is the editor of CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas, 33rd Edition and also Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, by Gradshteyn and Ryzhik. He serves as the series editor of the CRC Series of Advances in Applied Mathematics.