This book was created to dispell the myriad of Internet articles proposing to tell observers how they can "collimate" their binocular by the willy-nilly tweaking of a few screws but which may produce unsatisfactory results or even damage alignment even more.
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William John Cook is an American operations researcher and mathematician, and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he joined the faculty in 2018. He was formerly a University Professor, Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo