Victor Henner is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Louisville. He has Ph.Ds from the Novosibirsk Institute of Mathematics in Russia and Moscow State University. He co-wrote with Tatyana Belozerova Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. Tatyana Belozerova is a professor at Perm State University in Russia. Along with Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, she co-wrote with Victor Henner Mathematical Methods in Physics: Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Series, and Special Functions. Alexander Nepomnyashchy is a mathematics professor at Northwestern University and hails from the Faculty of Mathematics at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests include non-linear stability theory and pattern formation.