Lester E. Dubins (1920-2010) was Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1962 to 2004. Leonard J. Savage (1917-1971) was a mathematician and statistician who taught at several universities, including Princeton, Yale, and Columbia. His other Dover book is The Foundation of Statistics. William Sudderth is a Professor in the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota. David Gilat is a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University.