TITLE: Who is this guy : Z.A. Melzak (wrote Companion to Concrete Mathematics) ?
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: Author : Z.A. Melzak
Book Title : Companion to Concrete Mathematics.
Publication :  Dover renewed 2004 2 volumes in one. Copyright 1972/1976.  
I found this book extremely nice.
To whet your appetite he talks about reification as well as some plain and less plain way to accelerate series convergence. 
In a few words it is a rare blend of concreteness and conceptualization. It smells a bit like Concrete Mathematics (by Knuth and co..) but the
only information I found was an an depth review by Klamkin (not entirely positive though).  
QUESTION : I would like to find connections : information about the author, and for those who appreciate this book or heard loadably about it: what others books/works are in the same vein ?

REPLY [17 votes]: According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, Zdzislaw Alexander Melzak did his graduate studies at MIT and became a professor at UBC. I'm not sure whether his name might have actually been spelled Zozislaw, though (I guess someone Polish would know which is correct). The UBC Library has online a photo of him from 1966.