The Authors

Angela B. Shiflet is Larry Hearn McCalla Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  With an international reputation as a leader in computational science education, she was instrumental in the development of Wofford's Emphasis in Computational Science, which the National Science Foundation helped to fund.  Eleven summer faculty research positions at three national government laboratories have provided background and experience that have enriched this textbook and six others in computer science and mathematics that she authored.  Angela was approved for the Fulbright Specialist Roster (2013-2018), was named Carnegie Foundation’s South Carolina Professor of the Year (2009), and recieved Krell Institute's Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science Award (2007).

Originally trained as an aquatic ecologist, Professor George W. Shiflet expanded his research and teaching interests into the areas of molecular/cellular biology, simulation and modeling of biological systems and genetics. During summers between 1979 and 1998, he was a visiting researcher at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, the University of California-Berkeley, the Greenwood Genetic Center, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA Medical Center.  Professor Shiflet has won two teaching awards and served as a department chair for more than twenty years. In 2003, he was named the Dr. and Mrs. Larry H. McCalla Professor of Biology at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.  George is also a Fulbright Specialist (2013-2018).