Paul J. Nahin
Forfatter af An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1
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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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Værker af 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 eksemplarer
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age (2012) 116 eksemplarer
In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions (2016) 71 eksemplarer
Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age (1988) 66 eksemplarer
Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction (2011) 57 eksemplarer
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics (2009) 53 eksemplarer
Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?: And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability (2013) 38 eksemplarer
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable (2020) 36 eksemplarer
How to fall slower than gravity : and other everyday (and not so everyday) uses of mathematics and physical reasoning (2018) 33 eksemplarer
Holy Sci-Fi!: Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect (Science and Fiction) (2014) 18 eksemplarer
Time Machine Tales: The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel (Science and Fiction) (2016) 13 eksemplarer
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable (2020) 3 eksemplarer
Transients for Electrical Engineers: Elementary Switched-Circuit Analysis in the Time and Laplace Transform Domains… (2018) 3 eksemplarer
The Reunion 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVIII, No. 7 (July 1978) (1978) — Bidragyder — 27 eksemplarer
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVIII, No. 4 (April 1978) (1978) — Bidragyder — 27 eksemplarer
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVII, No. 10 (October 1977) (1977) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
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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.… (mere)