Thursday, March 5, 2026

Version #

Changes made

Date of modifications submitted to Amazon*

Version 1.00First edition, first printing (book released on May 6, 2025) 
Version 1.01

-Added a section of “Bits and Pieces” on page 369.

-Figure 15-2 was not referenced in the text, which has been fixed now (page 298, section 15.1.3)

-Correction of a typo on MRT on page 2.

July 24, 2025
Version 1.02-updated Figure 7-5 to keep parameter names consistent with the text.July 29, 2025
Version 1.03

-updated Table 2-1 (added the Laplace transforms of two more functions; page 30) 

-added one more Jusko interview question on mentoring junior scientists (page 366). 

Oct 9, 2025
Version 1.04

-added author’s note on the first page of front matter (claimed that I did not use AI in writing this book)

- added one page of Dr. Jusko’s hand-written lecture note under the section of “Bits and Pieces” (see page 370)

Feb 24, 2026
Version 1.05

Made following corrections (Many thanks to Dr. Xiaomeng Wan for identifying these errors):

-Chapter 5: For the equation for dx/dt on page 73, the second rate-function was incomplete (should be ke*X instead of ke). This error has been corrected. 

-Chapter 5: Equations provided in Figure 5-4 has errors (“-“ sign was missed) and has been fixed. 

-Chapter 9: corrected the typo “ofr” on page 165 (should be “or”)

-Chapter 10: corrected the typo “Undre” on page 186 (should be “Under”)

Mar 1, 2026

*After the modified file is submitted, usually it takes a day or two for it to be published on Amazon. 

 

Note: This book is self-published by Guohua An via Amazon’s print on demand (POD). Readers would be able to know which version they have based on this history table and the printing date shown on the last page of the book. 

 

(An, 3/5/2026)