AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE

The author questionnaire is one of the most important tools we have in planning the promotional strategies for your book. Your answers to the questions below will be indispensable to us in launching your book to the widest possible audience. Please answer all questions as completely as possible and feel free to attach additional sheets of paper if you need more room. Short, descriptive sentences about the book's features and benefits are most useful.

We need your completed survey back no later than the response date listed below. If you have any questions about completing this questionnaire, please contact your editor.

DATE SENT: June 20, 2006DUE DATE:July 13, 2006

Series: SURV/May2

Title of your book:

1. BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

Please provide AUTHOR(S)/EDITOR(S) full name(s) and affiliation(s):

2. BOOK SUMMARY:

Please attach a brief summary (200 words or less) of your book that we can use as the basis for our promotional materials as well as for the text that will appear on the back cover of your book. Your summary should answer questions such as:

  1. What are the most important features of your book?
  2. Which new results, methods, or information will be of particular interest to readers?
  3. What is new in your approach to the subject matter?
  4. What benefits can readers expect to derive from the book?

3. READERSHIP:

A. Please describe in detail the audience to whom this book is directed.

 Undergraduates interested in:______

 Graduates interested in:______

 Researchers interested in:______

 Others:______

B. What educational or professional background is required of the potential reader?

C. Note the features of the book that will appeal specifically to this audience.

D. Which professional societies would be interested in the content and approach of your book?

4. SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION:

Which mathematics subject classification codes describe your book best?

5. COMPETING & RELATED LITERATURE

Please provide us with the author, title, and publisher (if known) of books similar or related in content and level.

How does your book differ?

6. TEXTBOOK POTENTIAL:

a. Would this book be suitable as a textbook?

b. For what courses would this be suitable as a textbook (please also indicate the level: freshman-sophomore, junior-senior, beginning graduate, advanced graduate)?

c. In the below list, check off the features of your book that will make it particularly attractive to potential instructors:

 Exercises (approx. how many per chapter?) ______

Chapter summaries

Solutions to selected exercises

Instructors’ solutions manual

Supplementary material on your website

Other features: ______

7. BOOK REVIEW JOURNALS:

Please list the names and addresses of journals or professional publications that would publish an announcement or a review of your book (excluding the following: Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, Bulletin of the AMS and Referatinyi Zurnal Matematika).

Which electronic newsgroups are relevant to the subject matter of your book?

8. CONFERENCES & MEETINGS:

Please list professional conferences and meetings relevant to your book along with noting any speaking engagements you have scheduled within a year after the publication date.

9. PERSONAL DISTINCTIONS:

Please note any academic degrees, honors, distinctions, awards and posts held that are relevant to this book and could contribute to the book’s promotions.

10. EXCERPTS ONLINE:

The AMS often posts online files of chapters and figures on the AMS Bookstore ( Please note any particular areas, chapters, illustrations, etc. that you feel should be highlighted for promotion.

Thank you for your assistance in providing this valuable information as soon as possible to assist in the effective promotion of your book.