Abstract
Dick Snyder ( <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> ) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1939. His family relocated to Santa Monica, California, in 1944. He was the oldest son of a lawyer and a Juilliard-trained classical pianist, accomplished people who cherished education and nurtured Dick’s talents and abilities. (He practiced the piano at 6 a.m. from the time he was about five years old.) As a child, he adored his grandfather, who taught him to read at three years old and gave him a love of learning. Grandpa was also an engineer, educated at Cooper Union, and introduced his grandson to math. (Dick still has Grandpa’s old wooden logarithmic slide rule in his desk.)
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