Lost in a Forest

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Steven R. Finch

STEVEN FINCH received his B.A. in mathematics from Oberlin College in 1982 and his M.S. in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He has worked as a statistical weather forecaster at TASC and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, technical editor at MathSoft, and adjunct instructor at Salem State College. His book Mathematical Constants (Cambridge University Press, 2003) has recently appeared. He is honored to have received a Book Fellowship from the Clay Mathematics Institute beginning in 2004. Finch is also a classical pianist and composer; a compact disc recording An Apple Gathering features his vocal and choral music.

John E. Wetzel

JOHN WETZEL did his undergraduate work at Purdue University and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1964, a student of Halsey Royden. He retired in 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after thirty-eight years of service. Always interested in classical geometry, he has most recently been studying the ways in which one shape fits in another—questions he regards as “fitting problems for retirement.”