The Authors

Meet the Mathematicians

Angela B. Shiflet is Larry Hearn McCalla Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  With a national 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 through a CCLI grant.   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.

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 has 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.