Larry Schumaker was a Professor of Mathematics at both the University of Texas, Austin, and Texas A&M University, and since 1988 has been the Stevenson Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University. He is a SIAM Fellow and a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. In addition to editing 40 conference proceedings and translating a number of books from German, he is the author of Spline Functions: Basic Theory, and a coauthor of Spline Functions on Triangulations. His research continues to focus on spline functions and their applications.