Paul Nahin

Paul J. Nahin (born November 26, 1940 in Berkeley , California ) is an American popular science non-fiction author on mathematics .

Nahin attended Brea-Olinda High School in Brea and studied electrical engineering at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1962, at Caltech with a master's degree in 1963, and received his doctoral degree as a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine in 1972 . In between he worked in the design of digital logic and as a radar engineer in the southern California aircraft industry. He is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire . From 1971 he began an academic career and taught at Harvey Mudd College , the Naval Postgraduate School and the University of New Hampshire and the University of Virginia . In between, he spent a year as a post-doctoral student at the Naval Research Laboratory, a year and a half at the Center of Naval Analyzes and the Institute for Defense Analyzes in Washington, DC as a weapons systems analyst.

Nahin wrote several popular science books on mathematics, some of which became bestsellers. He gave lectures in colleges on mathematics. B. the Sampson Lecture 2011 at Bates College . He has also written on time travel , science fiction and religion, a biography of Oliver Heaviside, and science fiction short stories for Analog , Omni, and Twilight Zone magazines .

Fonts

• Oliver Heaviside. The life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age. IEEE Press, New York NY 1988, ISBN 0-87942-238-6 .
• Time Machines. Time travel in Physics, Metaphysics and Science Fiction. American Institute of Physics (AIP), New York NY 1993, ISBN 1-56396-371-X (2nd edition. Springer et al., New York NY et al. 1999, ISBN 0-387-98571-9 ), (preface by Kip Thorne ) .
• The science of radio. AIP Press, Woodbury NY 1996, ISBN 1-56396-347-7 (2nd edition as: The science of radio. With MATLAB and Electronics Workbench demonstrations. Ibid 2001, ISBN 0-387-95150-4 ).
• An imaginary tale. The story of . ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}}$Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1998, ISBN 0-691-02795-1 .
• Dueling idiots and other probability puzzlers. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000, ISBN 0-691-00979-1 .
• When least is best. How mathematicians discovered many clever ways to make things as small (or as large) as possible. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2004, ISBN 0-691-07078-4 .
• Dr. Euler's fabulous formula. Cures many mathematical ills. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2006, ISBN 0-691-11822-1 .
• Chases and escapes. The mathematics of pursuit and evasion. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-691-12514-5 .
• Digital dice. Computational solutions to practical probability problems. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-12698-2 .
• Mrs. Perkins's electric quilt. And other intriguing stories of mathematical physics. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-691-13540-3 .
• Number Crunching. Taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to Science Fiction. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-691-14425-2 .
• Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now? And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2013, ISBN 978-0-691-15680-4 .
• The logician and the engineer. How George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2013, ISBN 978-0-691-15100-7 .
• Holy sci-fi! Where science fiction and religion intersect. Springer, New York NY et al. 2014, ISBN 978-1-4939-0617-8 .
• Inside Interesting Integrals. Springer, New York NY et al. 2015, ISBN 978-1-4939-1276-6 .

Web links

• Biographical information
• Biographical information from Nahin himself on Amazon