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Acknowledgment from
Leningrad Mathematical Olympiads 1987-1991 by Dmitry Fomin and Alexey Kirichenko |
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| The authors, Professors Kirichenko and Fomin, have done a marvelous job of preserving the appeal of these problems in their English translation. | ||
| I am indebted to Mark Saul who had the inspiration to propose making the contests from Russia available to the English-speaking world and who was able to put me in contact with the authors from one of Russia's most prestigious contests, the Leningrad Mathematical Olympiad. As a small publisher who puts out very few books a year, I feel honored to be able to publish this one. | ||
| There are several other people who helped make the book a reality. Alice Cheyer did a masterful job of copyediting. This task was above and beyond the usual job inasmuch as she had to deal with a very technical manuscript written by people for whom English is not their native language. Alice also entered the corrections from the proofreaders. | ||
| Paul Anagnostopoulos of Windfall Software did the book design and did an excellent job as compositor. Material arrived from the authors by mail, courier, disk, and electronic mail and had to go through numerous stages of electronic translation before it could be turned into ZzTeX, our production system. Thanks must go to anonymous scientists and administrators who created and keep running the Internet, an electronic communications system that allowed nearly instantaneous transmission of both text (in ASCII) and graphics (using encapsulated PostScript) from Russia to the US. | ||
| CompuServe Navigator v3.1.1 was used for access to CompuServe Information Service which provided Internet access. Word Perfect v5.0 files supplied by the authors were translated into TeX using v2.00E of Publishing Companion by K-Talk Communications, Inc. All the figures were carefully handcrafted by the authors using Designer v3.1 from Micrografx and exported to EPS files. Interchange between DOS and Macintosh diskettes was accomplished using v6.01 of MacLinkPlus from DataViz. Windfall Software did the conversion from plain TeX v3.141 to ZzTeX v2.1c. The problems were proofread and classified by Stanley Rabinowitz. The cover design was by Kathi Duprey. I thank Mark Saul for his insightful Foreword. | ||
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Stanley Rabinowitz
MathPro Press Westford, Massachusetts July, 1993 |
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