He holds a B.S. in mathematics from North Dakota State University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. (His Ph.D. advisor is now his co-author on this book.) Mitch’s research interests are in the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, online algorithms, and combinatorial approaches to Stanley depth of monomial ideals. He likes to travel, bake, and take photographs. (The cover image for the 2016 Edition of Applied Combinatorics is of work his honors thesis student Matthew R. Kiser did on the board in Mitch’s office.) Mitch is also the Managing Director of the Mathematics Genealogy Project.