Acknowledgements

Our workflow was tremendously enhanced by the support of Edmund Lee and Aaron Lu, who took our sketches and plots and translated them to high-quality, consistently formatted figures. The layout of this book was greatly improved based in part on a template provided by Max Opgenoord. We are indebted to many students and colleagues who provided feedback and insightful questions on our concepts, examples, lectures, and manuscript drafts. At the risk of leaving out some contributors, we wish to express particular gratitude to the following individuals who helped create examples, problems, solutions, or content that was incorporated in the book: Tal Dohn, Xiaosong Du, Sicheng He, Jason Hicken, Donald Jones, Shugo Kaneko, Taylor McDonnell, Judd Mehr, Santiago Padrón, Sabet Seraj, P. J. Stanley, and Anil Yildirim. Additionally, the following individuals provided helpful suggestions and corrections to the manuscript: Eytan Adler, Josh Anibal, Eliot Aretskin-Hariton, Alexander Coppeans, Alec Gallimore, Philip Gill, Justin Gray, Christina Harvey, John Hwang, Kevin Jacobsen, Kai James, Eirikur Jonsson, Matthew Kramer, Alexander Kleb, Michael Kokkolaras, Yingqian Liao, Sandy Mader, Marco Mangano, Giuliana Mannarino, Yara Martins, Johannes Norheim, Bernardo Pacini, Malhar Prajapati, Michael Saunders, Nikhil Shetty, Tamás Terlaky, and Elizabeth Wong. We are grateful to peer reviewers who provided enthusiastic encouragement and helpful suggestions and wish to thank our editors at Cambridge University Press, who quickly and competently offered corrections. Finally, we express our deepest gratitude to our families for their loving support.

Joaquim Martins and Andrew Ning