Franklin Mendivil Author

Ronald W. Shonkwiler is professor emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology School of Mathematics. He received his PhD in 1970. His areas of expertise include: stochastic optimization, computer simulation, Monte Carlo numerical methods, mathematical biology, and reproducing Kernel Hilbert spaces.

Franklin Mendivil is a professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. He received his BSCE in Civil Engineering and his PhD in 1996 at Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to the first edition of this text, Professor Mendivil co-authored "Fractal-Based Methods in Analysis" 2012.