Paul J. Nahin

Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of 21 books on mathematics, physics, and the history of science, published by Springer, and the university presses of Princeton and Johns Hopkins. He received the 2017 Chandler Davis Prize for Excellence in Expository Writing in Mathematics (for his paper "The Mysterious Mr. Graham," The Mathematical Intelligencer, Spring 2016). He gave the invited 2011 Sampson Lectures in Mathematics at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.
Ebooks
An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1
3.8
Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills
3.7
Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion
4.0
Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel
4.8
In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions
4.0
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age
3.0
Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction
3.0
Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
4.0
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Inside Interesting Integrals: 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)
4.0
Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?: And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability
4.3
In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem
4.0
When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
4.0
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics
4.0
Time Machine Tales: The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
3.0
The Mathematical Radio: Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband
5.0
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning
5.0
Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers
4.0
Holy Sci-Fi!: Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect
4.0
Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
4.0
Inside Interesting Integrals: A Collection of Sneaky Tricks, Sly Substitutions, and Numerous Other Stupendously Clever, Awesomely Wicked, and Devilishly Seductive Maneuvers for Computing Hundreds of Perplexing Definite Integrals From Physics, Engineering, and Mathematics (Plus Numerous Challenge Problems with Complete, Detailed Solutions), Edition 2
Transients for Electrical Engineers: Elementary Switched-Circuit Analysis in the Time and Laplace Transform Domains (with a touch of MATLAB®)