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Paul J. Nahin

Author of An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1

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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 751 copies, 2 reviews
Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills 240 copies, 3 reviews
Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction 142 copies, 4 reviews
When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make… 127 copies
Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel 112 copies, 3 reviews
Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers 101 copies, 2 reviews
Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion 87 copies
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created… 83 copies, 4 reviews
Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems 63 copies, 1 review
Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the… 53 copies
In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday… 52 copies
The Science of Radio 49 copies
Inside Interesting Integrals 49 copies
Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical… 44 copies
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of… 43 copies
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1940-11-26
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Lee, New Hampshire, USA
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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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