Dave Pruett is a retired computational scientist and academic applied mathematician with a decade of aerospace experience at NASA Langley Research Center and nearly three decades o...view moreDave Pruett is a retired computational scientist and academic applied mathematician with a decade of aerospace experience at NASA Langley Research Center and nearly three decades of university teaching in Virginia. He is also the author of Reason and Wonder, "a love letter to the cosmos," which garnered an American Library Association Choice Award shortly following its publication in 2012.view less