This book, like so many of their papers, can help clarify topics that you feel you should understand, but don't. It covers topics that many college math graduates don't understand well, with much of it at a high-school math level. For the self-taught computer programmer, it will cover many math topics that will help you in your career. As both authors have extensive backgrounds in computer graphics, you will notice that this book is slanted toward those ideas and algorithms. As a reference book, it explains the algorithms in clear language. It is well worth the money.
Dr. Sederberg, one of the authors, has been said to make mathematics speak like poetry. He has written many papers in Computer Science and has had several publications in SIGGRAPH, the world's most impressive computer graphics conference. Having just SIGGRAPH paper one is considered an accomplishment -- he has 10 to date. Gengzhe Chang, I believe, was one of his Ph.D. students. Of their joint publications, I feel this is the most useful.
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