About the Author

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Jeffery J. Leader earned the Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, where his advisor was Philip J. Davis. He specializes in numerical analysis and computational science. He has taught at Harvey Mudd College, the Naval Postgraduate School, the U.S. Military Academy, Santa Clara University (in the School of Engineering), and the U.S. Air Force Academy (as a Distinguished Visiting Professor). He has spent summers consulting at the Army and Air Force Research Labs. and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, as well as a sabbatical at Sandia National Labs. For the past 22 years he has been at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where he is Professor of Mathematics and founded and directs the major in Computational Science.