*Author* : Z.A. Melzak  

*Book Title* : Companion to Concrete Mathematics.  

*Publication* : Dover renewed 2004 2 volumes in one. Copyright 1972/1976. 


I found this book extremely nice.  

To whet your appetite he talks about reification as well as some plain and less plain way to accelerate series convergence. 
In a few words it is a rare blend of concreteness and conceptualization. It smells a bit like Concrete Mathematics (by Knuth and co..) but the
only information I found was an an depth review by Klamkin (not entirely positive though). 


QUESTION : I would like to find connections : information about the author, and for those who appreciate this book or heard loadably about it: what others books/works are in the same vein ? 



Who is this guy : Z.A. Melzak (wrote Companion to Concrete Mathematics) ?
According to [the Mathematics Genealogy Project](http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=17764), Zdzislaw Alexander Melzak did his graduate studies at MIT and became a professor at UBC. I'm not sure whether his name might have actually been spelled Zozislaw, though (I guess someone Polish would know which is correct). The UBC Library has online [a photo of him](http://sproat.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/ubcnew&CISOPTR=3385&CISOBOX=1&REC=1) from 1966.


