Paul J. Nahin

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Paul J. Nahin is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, University of New Hampshire, Harvey Mudd College, Naval Postgraduate School, California Institute of Technology, University of Virginia, Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Paul J. Nahin is an American electrical engineer and author who has written 20 books on topics in physics and mathematics, including biographies of Oliver Heaviside, George Boole, and Claude Shannon, books on mathematical concepts such as Euler's formula and the imaginary unit, and a number of books on the physics and philosophical puzzles of time travel.

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Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion (2012) (173)
Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction (1993) (102)
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1. (1999) (67)
Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age (2002) (66)
Inside Interesting Integrals (2014) (58)
An Imaginary Tale (1998) (45)
An imaginary tale : the story of [the square root of minus one] (1998) (44)
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of (2001) (42)
NCTR Plus Sensor Fusion Equals IFFN or can Two Plus Two Equal Five? (1980) (41)
Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills (2006) (36)
The science of radio (1996) (31)
Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude : The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age (1988) (25)
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i [the square root of minus one] (Princeton Library Science Edition) (2010) (23)
The theory and measurement of a silhouette descriptor for image pre-processing and recognition (1974) (17)
When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible (2011) (15)
A Parallel Mechanism for Describing Silhouettes (1972) (14)
Maxwell's grand unification (1992) (11)
Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel (1997) (11)
Digital dice - computational solutions to practical probability problems (2008) (10)
The science of radio : with MATLAB and electronics workbench demonstrations (2001) (9)
Time travel in Einstein's universe [Books] (2001) (9)
Chases and Escapes (2007) (8)
Behind the Laplace transform (1991) (8)
Oliver Heaviside, Fractional Operators, and the Age of the Earth (1985) (7)
A History of Pi@@@The Joy of Pi@@@The Nothing That Is@@@The Story of a Number@@@An Imaginary Tale@@@Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (2001) (7)
When Least Is Best (2003) (7)
Contour Integration (2020) (6)
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age (2012) (5)
The Laser BMD and Other Radiant Energy Weapons: Some Thoughts (1977) (5)
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (2012) (4)
A Simplified Derivation of Frei's Histogram Hyperbolization for Image Enhancement (1979) (4)
Holy Sci-Fi!: Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect (2014) (3)
Time Machine Tales: The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel (2016) (3)
The Logician and the Engineer (2012) (3)
Can Land-Based Strategic Bombers Survive an SLBM Attack? (1977) (3)
Oliver Heaviside : genius and curmudgeon (1983) (3)
Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction (2011) (3)
Worth the time (2009) (3)
In Pursuit of Zeta-3 (2021) (2)
The Physics of Time Travel: II (2017) (2)
Among the giants: Oliver Heaviside: Genius and curmudgeon: He called establishment mathematicians `woodenheaded¿ when his powerful new methods perplexed them. His fellow EEs didn't know what to make of him either (1983) (2)
An error analysis of an algorithm for Marcum's Q-function (1976) (2)
Oliver Heaviside: an accidental time traveller (2018) (1)
23. Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now (2014) (1)
Transients for Electrical Engineers (2019) (1)
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity (2018) (1)
Chapter 4. Fourier Series (2011) (1)
APPENDIX A. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (2010) (1)
Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers (2000) (1)
In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem (2021) (1)
4. Boolean Algebra (2012) (1)
Communication with the Past (2017) (1)
Chapter 1. Complex Numbers (2011) (1)
6. Electrical Circuit Analysis and Computers (2011) (1)
The two-section RC phase-shift oscillator (1964) (1)
Basic Circuit Concepts (2018) (0)
Chapter 2. Vector Trips (2011) (0)
11. The Problem of the n-Liars (2014) (0)
1. Three Examples of the Mutual Embrace (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 1. Mathematics and Physics (2020) (0)
24. Chickens in Boxes (2014) (0)
Problem 14. Is This Easier Than Falling Off a Log? Well, Maybe Not (2019) (0)
10. Doing the Preface Problems (2016) (0)
Appendix 1. One Way to Guess on a Test (2013) (0)
4. Air Drag—A Mathematical View (2009) (0)
Problem 20. Another Cubic Equation: This One Inspired by Jules Verne (2019) (0)
7. Chain Letters That Never End (2014) (0)
17. How to Catch a Baseball (or Not) (2016) (0)
Multiplying by “Sampling and Filtering” (2001) (0)
Time, Space, God’s Omniscience, and Free Will (2014) (0)
3. Computers and Mathematical Physics (2011) (0)
Solution to an Old Problem (2001) (0)
Is Lorenz's Butterfly Kelvin's Mosquito? (1995) (0)
2. Measuring Gravity (2009) (0)
1. Breaking Sticks (2014) (0)
Chapter 6. Electronics and √ −1 (2011) (0)
18. Waiting for Stoplights (2013) (0)
Problem 24. Wizard Math: Fourier’s Series, Dirac’s Impulse, and Euler’s Zeta Function (2019) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. Using Complex Numbers (2010) (0)
15. How Some Things Float (or Don’t) (2016) (0)
14. Darts and Ballistic Missiles (2014) (0)
11. Gravity Far Above the Earth (2009) (0)
Preface with Challenge Problems (2016) (0)
Preface to the Paperback Edition (2010) (0)
13. A Police Patrol Problem (2013) (0)
13. A Puzzle for When the Super Bowl (2014) (0)
Appendix 9. Author-Created MATLAB m-files and Their Location in the Book (2013) (0)
Problem 21. Beyond the Cubic: Quartic Equations, Crossed Ladders, Undersea Rocket Launches, and Quintic Equations (2019) (0)
2. The Twins (2014) (0)
18. The Big Noise (2009) (0)
Problem 22. Escaping an Atomic Explosion: Why the Enola Gay Survived (2019) (0)
APPENDIX. How to Differentiate an Integral (2020) (0)
13. Walking a Ladder Upright (2016) (0)
7. The Pipe Smoker’s Discovery (2013) (0)
18. Tossing Balls and Shooting Bullets Uphill (2016) (0)
17. Waiting for Buses (2013) (0)
Problem 5. The Catapult Again: Where Dead Cows Can’t Go! (2019) (0)
18. Average Distances on a Square (2014) (0)
Mathematical R&D (1979) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. More Uses of Complex Numbers (2010) (0)
7. Some Combinatorial Logic Examples (2012) (0)
5. The Three-Body Problem and Computers (2011) (0)
Reply to Derbes (2010) (0)
Problem 16. When Intuition Fails: Sometimes What Feels Right, Just Isn’t (2019) (0)
Appendix 8. How to Simulate an Exponential Random Variable (2013) (0)
Appendix 7. How to Simulate Kelvin’s Fair Coin with a Biased Coin (2013) (0)
Preradio History of Radio Waves (2001) (0)
Appendix 2. A Derivation of Brouncker’s Continued Fraction for 4/π (2019) (0)
Using Power Series to Evaluate Integrals (2020) (0)
6. Really Long Falls (2009) (0)
14. Why Is the Sky Dark at Night (2016) (0)
Problem 7. If Theory Fails: Monte Carlo Simulation (2019) (0)
12. How Many Runners in a Marathon (2013) (0)
Squaring and Multiplying with Matched Nonlinearities (2001) (0)
An Interview with John Pierce (1981) (0)
Logic Switching Circuits (2017) (0)
21. The Path of a Punt (2016) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Solving the Heat Equation (2020) (0)
Receiving Spark Transmitter Signals (2001) (0)
Chapter 5. Fourier Integrals (2011) (0)
A Broad Look at Time Travel (2017) (0)
7. The Zeta Function—and Physics (2009) (0)
Analytic Signals and Single-Sideband Radio (2001) (0)
Time Travel Paradoxes and (Some of) Their Explanations (1999) (0)
Appendix 5. An Illustration of the Inclusion-Exclusion Principle (2013) (0)
8. Science Fiction: When Computers Become Like Us (2011) (0)
Technical Note on MATLAB®’s Random Number Generator (2014) (0)
10. Hollywood Thrills (2014) (0)
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 3. The Heat Equation (2020) (0)
4. A Curious Coin-Flipping Game (2013) (0)
CHAPTER 5. William Thomson and the Infinitely Long Telegraph Cable Equation (2020) (0)
APPENDIX C. (√-1)(√-1) to 135 Decimal Places, and How It Was Computed (2010) (0)
9. Is Dreidel Fair (2014) (0)
The Mysterious Mr. Graham (2016) (0)
What If God Revealed Himself (2014) (0)
16. Nearest Neighbors (2009) (0)
11. The Physics of Stacking Books (2016) (0)
Seven Not-So-Easy Integrals (2015) (0)
CHAPTER ONE The Puzzles of Imaginary Numbers (2010) (0)
Problem 15. When the Computer Fails: When Every Day Is a Birthday (2019) (0)
9. A Cautionary Epilogue (2011) (0)
6. Energy from Moving Water (2016) (0)
The latest telling of a remarkable life in Victorian science (2017) (0)
Convolution Theorems, Frequency Shifts, and Causal Time Signals (2001) (0)
5. Merry-Go-Round Physics and the Tides (2016) (0)
4. The Astonishing Problem of the Hanging Masses (2011) (0)
15. Blood Testing (2014) (0)
Problem 1. A Military Question: Catapult Warfare (2019) (0)
9. How to Measure Depth with a Stopwatch (2016) (0)
10. The Umbrella Quandary (2013) (0)
3. Energy from Moving Air (2016) (0)
19. Rapid Travel in a Great Circle Transit Tube (2016) (0)
14. Random Walks (2009) (0)
16. Big Quotients — Part 2 (2014) (0)
In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions (2016) (0)
8. A Toilet Paper Dilemma (2013) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Wizard Mathematics (2010) (0)
6. Boole, Shannon, and Probability (2012) (0)
Problem 12. Mathematical Analysis: By Physical Reasoning (2019) (0)
APPENDIX E. Deriving the Differential Equation for the Phase-Shift Oscillator (2010) (0)
The Laplace Transform (2018) (0)
Appendix 4. Solving Montmort’s Problem by Recursion (2013) (0)
12. Communication Satellite Physics (2016) (0)
Problem 23. “Impossible’’ Math Made Easy: Gauss’s Congruence Arithmetic (2019) (0)
First Continuous Waves, Negative Resistance Oscillators and the Van der Pol Equation, and the Heterodyne Concept (2001) (0)
19. Electing Emperors and Popes (2013) (0)
Problem 6. Another Math Problem: This One Requires Calculus (2019) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. The Puzzles Start to Clear (2010) (0)
17. One Last Random Walk (2009) (0)
Appendix 1. MATLAB, Primes, Irrationals, and Continued Fractions (2019) (0)
15. Two More Random Walks (2009) (0)
22. Easy Ways to Measure Gravity in Your Garage (2016) (0)
19. Electricity in the Fourth Dimension (2009) (0)
Fourier Series and Their Physical Meaning (2001) (0)
8. Bingo Befuddlement (2014) (0)
4. Dragsters and Space Station Physics (2016) (0)
Analysis of class of beacon identification-friend-foe/selective-identification-feature code-validation schemes (1970) (0)
Religious Science Fiction Before Science Fiction (2014) (0)
11. The Case of the Missing Senators (2013) (0)
Appendix 6. Solutions to the Spin Game (2013) (0)
Tapan K. Sarkar;, Robert J. Mailloux;, Arthur A. Oliner;, Magdalena Salazar‐Palma;, Dipak L. Sengupta.History of Wireless. (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering.) xix + 655 pp., index. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. $77.99 (cloth). (2006) (0)
Problem 11. A Combinatorial Problem with Physics Implications: Particles, Energy Levels, and Pauli Exclusion (2019) (0)
Synchronous Demodulation and its Problems (2001) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. A First Try at Understanding the Geometry of √-1 (2010) (0)
ALSO BY PAUL J. NAHIN (2018) (0)
Bomber Survivability and Penetration Capability (1977) (0)
Using $ \sqrt{-1} $ to Evaluate Integrals (2015) (0)
7. Vectors and Bad Hair Days (2016) (0)
Beyond Boole and Shannon (2017) (0)
Appendix 2. An Example of Variance Reduction in the Monte Carlo Method (2013) (0)
Physical Meaning of the Fourier Transform (2001) (0)
9. Turing Machines (2012) (0)
Computers as Gods (2014) (0)
2. The Traffic-Light Dilemma (2016) (0)
1. What You Need To Know to Read This Book (2012) (0)
8. An Illuminating Problem (2016) (0)
Philosophers, Physicists, and the Time Travel Paradoxes (2017) (0)
7. The Leapfrog Problem (2011) (0)
9. Ballistics—With Air Drag (2009) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Nineteenth Century, Cauchy, and the Beginning of Complex Function Theory (2010) (0)
Euler: The Man and the Mathematical Physicist (2011) (0)
Preface to the 2021 Edition (2021) (0)
Challenge Problem Solutions (2014) (0)
16. The Appeals Court Paradox (2013) (0)
Multiplying by Squaring and Filtering (2001) (0)
Gamma and Beta Function Integrals (2020) (0)
Transients in the Transform Domain (2018) (0)
Problem 19. Beyond the Quadratic: A Cubic Equation and Discontinuous Behavior in a Physical System (2019) (0)
Chapter 3. The Irrationality of π2 (2011) (0)
History of Wireless (2006) (0)
Orbital BMD and the space patrol (2020) (0)
Problem 17. Computer Simulation of the Physics of NASTYGLASS: Is This Serious? . . . Maybe (2019) (0)
10. Gravity and Newton (2009) (0)
Philosophical Space and Time (2017) (0)
Fourier Integral Theorem and the Continuous Spectrum of a Nonperiodic Time Signal (2001) (0)
22. Ping-Pong, Squash, and Difference Equations (2014) (0)
A Simple Operator Approach forAnalytic (1968) (0)
Mathematics of AM Sidebands (2001) (0)
20. Who’s Ahead? (2014) (0)
5. Logic Switching Circuits (2012) (0)
Looking at The World Through a Nastyglass Window (1987) (0)
Transients in the Time Domain (2018) (0)
Solutions to the Challenge Problems (2011) (0)
6. Two Ways to Proofread (2014) (0)
Appendix 4. Solution to Lord Rayleigh’s Rotating-Ring Problem of 1876 (2019) (0)
23. Epilogue Newton’s Gravity Calculation Mistake (2016) (0)
APPENDIX B. The Complex Roots of a Transcendental Equation (2010) (0)
An imaginary tale :the story of [odmocnina z minus jedné] (1998) (0)
12. Gravity Inside the Earth (2009) (0)
8. Ballistics—With No Air Drag (Yet) (2009) (0)
APPENDIX F. The Value of the Gamma Function on the Critical Line (2010) (0)
Appendix 3. Landen’s Calculus Solution to the Depressed Cubic Equation (2019) (0)
“Rayleigh’s Rotating Ring”1 (2017) (0)
21. Chain Reactions, Branching Processes, and Baby Boys (2013) (0)
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons (2020) (0)
16. A Reciprocating Problem (2016) (0)
A History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical Universe. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. (2001) (0)
5. Air Drag—A Physical Vie (2009) (0)
Appendix 3. Random Harmonic Series (2013) (0)
The Physics of Time Travel: Part I (2017) (0)
1. The Clumsy Dishwasher Problem (2013) (0)
Using $$ \sqrt{-1} $$ to Evaluate Integrals (2020) (0)
Problem 8. Monte Carlo and Theory: The Drunkard’s One-Dimensional Random Walk (2019) (0)
A note to the reader (2010) (0)
Convergence in Energy of the Fourier Series (2001) (0)
Request for help (1984) (0)
10. Beyond Boole and Shannon (2012) (0)
Birth of Electronics (2001) (0)
9. The Forgetful Burglar Problem (2013) (0)
Introduction: Classic Puzzles from the Past (2014) (0)
20. An Optimal Stopping Problem (2013) (0)
1. How’s Your Math? (2016) (0)
Time Traveling to Jesus (2014) (0)
19. When Will the Last One Fail (2014) (0)
In praise of simple physics (2016) (0)
Epilogue. For the Future: The Anti-Amphibological Machine (2012) (0)
3. George Boole and Claude Shannon Two Mini-Biographies (2012) (0)
The maximum signal separation on an N-channel communication link with Rayleigh fading (1969) (0)
20. Hurtling Your Body through Space (2016) (0)
Transmission Lines (2018) (0)
Space Travel, Radio, and Alien Encounters (2014) (0)
12. The Inconvenience of a Law (2014) (0)
2. Will Lil and Bill Meet at the Malt Shop (2013) (0)
15. How Long Is the Wait to Get the Potato Salad (2013) (0)
To the Reader (2021) (0)
2. Just for Fun: Two Quick Number-Crunching Problems (2011) (0)
4. Three Gambling Problems Newton Would “Probably” Have Liked (2014) (0)
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning (2018) (0)
Some Not-So-Easy Integrals (2020) (0)
3. A Parallel Parking Question (2013) (0)
The latest telling of a remarkable life in Victorian science (2017) (0)
17. To Test or Not to Test (2014) (0)
On the Nature of Time, Spacetime, and the Fourth Dimension (1999) (0)
The Mysterious Mr. Graham (2016) (0)
New Horizons (1987) (0)
The Arrows of Time (1999) (0)
“Rayleigh’s Rotating Ring”1 (2017) (0)
Impulse “Functions” in Time and Frequency (2001) (0)
13. Quilts & Electricity (2009) (0)
Will you be alive 10 years from now? : and numerous other curious questions in probability : a collection of not so well-known mathematical mind-benders (with solutions, with one exception) (2013) (0)
21. Plum Pudding (2014) (0)
Appendix. Fundamental Electric Circuit Concepts (2012) (0)
5. Big Quotients — Part 1 (2014) (0)
A Simple Operator Approach for Analytic Solution of Linear Constant-Coefficient Difference Equations (1968) (0)
Problem 13. When an Integral Blows Up: Can a Physical Quantity Really Be Infinite? (2019) (0)
8. Sequential-State Digital Circuits (2012) (0)
APPENDIX D. Solving Clausen’s Puzzle (2010) (0)
Antennas as Launchers and Interceptors of Electromagnetic Waves (2001) (0)
Problem 25. The Euclidean Algorithm: The Zeta Function and Computer Science (2019) (0)
An Overview of Time Travel (1999) (0)
Radio Spectrum of a Spark-Gap Transmitter (2001) (0)

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