Alma Wilson completed a BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Auckland, where he held both a New Zealand University Junior Scholarship and a Ngarimu V.C. and 28th (Maori) Battalion Scholarship. He subsequently served an LDS mission, worked in industry and government, and started his own technical writing consultancy in Sydney. He then completed a PhD in physics at Brigham Young University.

He is interested in raising the earth’s carrying capacity, and otherwise leaving the world a better place, or at least a little more interesting one, for his wife and children. He delights in devising and exploiting improved representations, especially in unexpected contexts in engineering and pedagogy.