Born and educated in Romania, Prof. Constanda is Emeritus Professor from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Christian Constanda currently holds the Charles W. Oliphant Endowed Chair in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Tulsa and the directorship of the Center for Boundary Integral Methods. He has been a prolific author/editor for Birkhauser and for Springer for many years. Constanda has authored several successful texts with CRC press and other publishers as well. His most recent Springer Copernicus title “Dude, Can you Count?” has sold 848 copies to date. Other authored volumes with Springer include “Variational and Potential Methods for a Class of Linear Hyperbolic Evolutionary Processes” (SMM). Prof. Constanda has published several edited volumes with Birkhauser.