Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Professor Paul Nahin, for his books on mathematics and engineering from which I learned a great deal and borrowed liberally, and for his kind encouragement; Simone Taylor, Editorial Director at Wiley, who saw the potential of the manuscript and undertook the task of getting this book published while guiding me along the way; and most gratefully Dr. Anthony C. Lowe, the Editor of the Wiley-SID Series, who corrected mistakes and blocked metaphors (I am of course solely responsible for any that have gotten through). Further thanks are due to my wife Fonda, for her patient understanding; my daughter Chelsea, for cheerful enthusiasm; and my cat Amao, for accompanying me all the while. For my technical education, I would like to thank Dr. Hsu Chenjung, whose intelligence inspired me; Professor Andrew Nagy of Michigan and Professor Von Eshleman of Stanford, who supported me; and Chimei Optoelectronics Corporation where I learned about LCDs. Many of the drawings were done by Ingrid Hung at Chimei and Tsai Hsin-Huei of the National Taiwan University of Art.
