Dionne Barrett is a graduate of the University of the West Indies. After working with the Jamaican Ministry of Finance and Planning, in 1998 she entered in the Jamaican classroom where she taught Mathematics for a period of about nine and a half years.She began writing Mathematics, A Simple View in 2002, after being encouraged by a former student, who pointed out the value of her math notes. This she completed in 2007.By nature, Dionne is expressive and thinks that Mathematics, although having a language of its own, need not be as complicated as some texts have it. As such, she has sought to make it as reader friendly as possible.