Paul J. Nahin
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Paul J. Nahin is the author of many popular math books, including How to Fall Slower Than Gravity and An Imaginary Tale (both Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
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Obras de Paul J. Nahin
When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible (2003) 152 copias
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age (2012) 114 copias
Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age (1988) 66 copias
Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction (2011) 57 copias
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics (2009) 52 copias
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable (2020) 36 copias
Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?: And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability (2013) 36 copias
How to fall slower than gravity : and other everyday (and not so everyday) uses of mathematics and physical reasoning (2018) 32 copias
Time Machine Tales: The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel (Science and Fiction) (2016) 13 copias
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable (2020) 3 copias
Transients for Electrical Engineers: Elementary Switched-Circuit Analysis in the Time and Laplace Transform Domains… (2018) 2 copias
The Reunion 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
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Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVII, No. 10 (October 1977) (1977) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-11-26
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- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Lee, New Hampshire, USA
- Educación
- Stanford University (BS|Electrical Engineering|1962)
California Institute of Technology (MS|Electrical Engineering|1963)
University of California, Irvine (PhD|Electrical Engineering)
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Jeg kan ikke helt finde ud af hvad jeg mener om Nahins bøger. Der er mange integraler i dem og der er jeg ikke så interesseret i. De her opgaver og forsøg på at analysere kurverne, ville jeg nok kaste en computersimulering efter i stedet for at prøve at finde formler og diverse integraler. Der er lidt om hvorfor tractrix kurven er interessant i en historisk sammenhæng.… (más)