Phillip A. Laplante

This is the first text to provide real engineering rigor to what had been a profession regarded as informal and without mathematical structure. When I first read this book around 1987, the title "software engineer" was not in vogue, and indeed, many objected to the use of the term (some still do). I had been educated as an applied mathematician but my brief career had been entirely as a software engineer. Discovering this book introduced me to the connection between software and mathematics that I had hoped for, but never really sought.