Acknowledgments

Many colleagues and students in the mathematical community have made valuable
contributions and suggestions since this book was begun. An early draft of the book was
written in collaboration with Ralph Abraham. We thank him for allowing us to draw
upon his work. It is impossible to list all those who assisted with this book, but we wish
especially to thank Michael Hoffman and Joanne Seitz for their help on earlier editions.
We also received valuable comments from Mary Anderson, John Ball, Patrick Brosnan,
Andrea Brose, David Drasin, Gerald Edgar, Michael Fischer, Frank Gerrish, Mohammad
Gohmi, Jenny Harrison, Jan Hogendijk, Jan-Jaap Oosterwijk, and Anne van Weerden
(Uterecht), David Knudson, Richard Kock, Andrew Lenard, William McCain, Gordon
McLean, David Merriell, Jeanette Nelson, Dan Norman, Keith Phillips, Anne Perleman,
Oren Walter Rosen, Kenneth Ross, Ray Sachs, Diane Sauvageot, Joel Smoller, Francis
Su, Melvyn Tews, Ralph and Bob Tromba, Steve Wan, Alan Weinstein, John Wilker,
and Peter Zvengrowski. The students and faculty of Austin Community College deserve
a special note of thanks, as do our students at both Caltech and UC Santa Cruz.
We owe a very special thanks to Stefan Hildebrandt and Robert Palais for their
historical advice.
We are grateful to the following instructors who have provided detailed reviews of
the manuscript: Dr. Michael Barbosu, SUNY Brockport; Brian Bradie, Christopher
Newport University; Mike Daven, Mount Saint Mary; Elias Deeba, University of
Houston–Downtown; John Feroe, Vassar; David Gurari, Case Western Reserve; Alan
Horowitz, Penn State; Rhonda Hughes, Bryn Mawr; Frank Jones, Rice University; Leslie
Kay, Virginia Tech; Richard Laugesen, University of Michigan; Namyong Lee, Min-
nesota State University; Tanya Leiese, Rose Hullman Institute; John Lott, University of
Michigan; Gerald Paquin, Université du Québec à Montréal; Joan Rand Moschovakis,
Occidental College; A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Princeton University; Howard Swann,
San Jose State University; Denise Szecsei, Stetson University; Edward Taylor, Wes-
leyan; and Chaogui Zhang, Case Western Reserve. For the fifth edition, we want to
thank all the reviewers, but especially Andrea Brose, UCLA, for her detailed and valu-
able comments. For the present edition we would like to thank Eliot Brenner, University
of Minnesota; Bueno Cachadina Maribel, UCSB; Evan Merrill Bullock, Rice University;
Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University; Der-Chen Chang, Georgetown University; Lenny
Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College; Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University; Mo-
hammed Kazemi, University of North Carolina; Min-Lin Lo, California State University
San Bernardino; Douglas Meade, University of South Carolina; Steven Miller, Brown
University; Doug Moore, UCSB; Eric J. Moore, University of Toronto Scarborough;
Peter Nyikos, University of South Carolina; Olga Radko, UCLA; David Russell, Vir-
ginia Tech; Francisco J. Sayas, University of Minnesota; Ryan Scott, Rice University;
Shagi Di Shih, University of Wyoming; Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University; Graeme
Wilkin, Johns Hopkins University; I Wu, Johns Hopkins University. Most important of
all are the readers and users of this book whose loyalty for over 35 years has made the
sixth edition possible.
A final word of thanks goes to those who helped in the preparation of the manuscript
and the production of the book. For the earlier editions, we thank Connie Calica, Nora
Lee, Marnie McElhiney, Ruth Suzuki, Ikuko Workman, and Esther Zack for their ex-
cellent typing of various versions and revisions of the manuscript; Herb Holden of

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Gonzaga University and Jerry Kazdan of the University of Pennsylvania for suggesting
and preparing early versions of the computer-generated figures; Jerry Lyons and Holly
Hodder for their roles as our previous mathematics editors; Christine Hastings for edi-
torial supervision; and Trumbull Rogers for his expert copyediting.
For the sixth edition we would like to acknowledge the strong support of our acqui-
sitions editor Terri Ward, our project editor Katrina Wilhelm, and once again Vivien
Weiss, our copy and production editor, as well as Brittney Corrigan-McElroy, with-
out all of whose dedicated and talented efforts this new edition would not have been
possible. The addition of so many excellent new exercises was made possible by the
contributions of Corey Shanbrom and Paul Tokorcheck, both of whom have extensive
experience teaching out of this text.
Finally, the current edition would have been impossible without the tireless efforts
and total dedication of Wendy McKay and Nafiseh Khoram as well as the generous
support of the California Institute of Technology. Jerry Marsden was particularly proud
to be associated with this outstanding institution.