George C. Hsiao received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from  National Taiwan University, a master's degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology in the same field,  and a doctorate degree in Mathematics  from Carnegie Mellon University. He is now the Carl J. Rees Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Delaware from which he retired in September 2012 after 43 years on the faculty of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. His primary research interests are integral equations and partial differential equations with their applications in mathematical physics and continuum mechanics.

Wolfgang L. Wendland, now Professor Emeritus at the University Stuttgart was studying mechanical engineering and mathematics at the Technical University Berlin and became Full Professor for Mathematics 1970-1986 at the TU Darmstadt and 1986-2005 at the University Stuttgart. His research interests are in Applied Mathematics with emphasis on partial differential equations and integral equations as well as approximation and numerical methods with applications to continuum mechanics of flow and elasticity problems.

Both authors are well known for their fundamental work on boundary integral equations and related topics.

Introduction.- Boundary Integral Equations.- Representation Formulae.- Sobolev Spaces.- Variational Formulations.- Electromagnetic Fields.- Introduction to Pseudodifferential Operators.- Pseudodifferential Operators as Integral Operators.- Pseudodifferential and Boundary Integral Operators.- Integral Equations on Recast as Pseudodifferential Equations.- Boundary Integral Equations on Curves in R^2. Remarks on Pseudodifferential Operators for Maxwell Equations.- Appendix A: Local Coordinates.- Appendix B: Vector Field Identities, Integration Formulae.- References.- Index.