Why did six-year-old Bonnie Garvin keep running away? We don't find out till she is sixteen and in the mean time her beloved grandfather dies, she and her loving but negatively minded father suffer near-alienation and her understanding mother is perplexed. Finally her problem is resolved but opens up a new course for her and her family's lives as she and circumstances come to a happy climax in the sealing of a doubly satisfying relationship with someone she's loved all along.

The term elliptic polynomials refers to the polynomials generated by o dd elliptic integrals and elliptic functions. In studying these, the a uthors consider such things as orthogonality and the construction of w eight functions and measures, finding structure constants and interest ing inequalities, and deriving useful formulas and evaluations. Althou gh some of the material may be familiar, it establishes a new mathemat ical field that intersects with classical subjects at many points. Its wealth of information on important properties of polynomials and clea r, accessible presentation make...