Peter Zörnig studied mathematics and physics at the University of Dortmund and received his PhD at Fernuniversitäut Hagen. Since 1996 he is professor at the Statistical Department of the University of Brasília where he currently holds the position of associate professor. During his career he has published several books and research papers in the areas of linear programming, mathematics for economists, graph theory, probability and quantitatve linguistics. Recently he has been working in statistical distribution theory, where he studied new univariate and bivariate families of bounded distributions. Elementary ideas from this research are also incorporated into the second edition of his textbook.