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Paul J. Nahin

Born: 26 November 1940

Paul J. Nahin is an American electrical engineer and author.

Born: 26 November 1940

Books by Paul J. Nahin (50 max)

An imaginary tale: the story of [the square root of minus one]

1998

Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers

2000

When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible

2003

Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems

2008

Time machines: time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction

1993

Dr. Euler's fabulous formula: cures many mathematical ills

2006

Microcosmic tales: 100 wondrous science fiction short-short stories

1980

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Donald Franson, Norman E. Hartman, Jack Ritchie, Charles E. Fritch, Phyllis Eisenstein, Fredric Brown, Robert Mattingly, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Zebrowski, Charles Sheffield, George H. Smith, Robert F. Decker, Harry Harrison, Richard Wilson, T. E. D. Klein, Richard K. Lyon, Arthur C. Clarke, Patricia Matthews, Alan Brennert, James Tiptree, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Bob Shaw, Walt Liebscher, Mack Reynolds, A. E. van Vogt, Paul Dellinger, Harlan Ellison, Henry Slesar, Ron Montana, Joanna Russ, Theodore Cogswell, Marcia Martin, Eric Vinicoff, Edward Bryant, Garen Drussaï, William F. Nolan, Helen M. Urban, Robert Silverberg, Alice Laurance, Robert Sheckley, Charles A. Spano Jr., Craig Strete, Rick Conley, Manly Wade Wellman, Dennis R. Caro, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Payes, Fritz Leiber, Ray Russell, Roberta Ghidalia, Sherwood Springer, Joseph F. Patrouch, Roland J. Green, H. L. Gold, Jan Howard Finder, Ruth Berman, James E. Gunn, Philip José Farmer, Bill Pronzini, Arthur Tofte, F. M. Busby, Paul J. Nahin, James A. Stevens, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Juleen Brantingham, Maggie Nadler, Lester del Rey, Larry Niven, Edward Wellen

Great Science Fiction: Stories By The World's Greatest Scientists

1985

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Gregory Benford, Robert L. Forward, Paul J. Nahin, Charles Sheffield, Kurd Laßwitz, Vernor Vinge, Fred Hoyle, Philip Latham, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, G. Harry Stine, J. R. Pierce, Larry Eisenberg, Jesse F. Bone, James McConnell, James Tiptree, Jr., Chad Oliver, Morton Klass, Suzette Haden Elgin, Mario Pei

Chases and escapes: the mathematics of pursuit and evasion

2007

The logician and the engineer: how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age

2012

Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now? And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability

2013

Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable

2020

science of radio

1995

Time travel

1997

Oliver Heaviside, sage in solitude: the life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age

2002

Mrs. Perkins's electric quilt: and other stories of physics and mathematics

2009

Number-crunching taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to science

2011

Inside interesting integrals (with an introduction to contour integation) a collection of sneaky tricks, sly substitutions, and numerous other stupendously clever, awesomely wicked, and devilishly seductive maneuvers for computing nearly 200 perplexing definite integrals from physics, engineering, and mathematics (plus 60 challenge problems with complete, detailed solutions)

2014

How to Fall Slower Than Gravity And Other Everyday Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning

2018

In Pursuit of Zeta-3 The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem

2021

Holy Sci-Fi! Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect

2014

Time Machine Tales The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel

2016

In praise of simple physics: the science and mathematics behind everyday questions

2016

Transients for Electrical Engineers Elementary Switched-Circuit Analysis in the Time and Laplace Transform Domains

2018

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1980, Featuring The Humanoid Universe (Volume C, No. 6)

1980

Space Mail: Volume II

1982

Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Mark Twain, Arsen Darnay, Will Stanton, John Collier, Joan D. Vinge, Algis Budrys, William John Watkins, Anthony Boucher, R. A. Lafferty, Gerald Jonas, Arthur C. Clarke, Sharon Webb, Paul J. Nahin, Al Sarrantonio, Barry N. Malzberg, John Sladek, Murray Leinster, L. Sprague De Camp, John W. Campbell