STANLEY J. FARLOW, PHD, is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Maine, USA. He was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maine for 47 years from 1968 to 2016, doing research in control theory, PDEs, and neural networks (GMDH algorithm) as well as teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in real and complex analysis, topology, differential equations, statistics, and a transition to higher math course.