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Paul J. Nahin

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

Includes the names: P Nahin, Paul Nahin, Paul J. Nahin, Paul J. Nahin, Paul J. Nahim, Paul J. Nahin, Paul J. 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. — biography from Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable… (more)

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Works by Paul J. Nahin

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 878 copies, 3 reviews

Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills 281 copies, 3 reviews

Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction 158 copies, 4 reviews

When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make… 146 copies, 1 review

Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel 131 copies, 3 reviews

Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers 106 copies, 2 reviews

The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created… 106 copies, 4 reviews

Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion 99 copies, 1 review

Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems 77 copies, 1 review

Inside Interesting Integrals 65 copies

In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday… 63 copies

Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the… 62 copies

The Science of Radio 56 copies

Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical… 55 copies

Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of… 46 copies

Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now?: And Numerous Other Curious Questions… 34 copies, 1 review

Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the… 31 copies

How to fall slower than gravity : and other everyday (and not so everyday)… 29 copies

In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem 23 copies, 1 review

Holy Sci-Fi!: Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect (Science and… 16 copies

Time Machine Tales: The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical… 13 copies, 1 review

Publish and Perish [short story] 3 copies

Transients for Electrical Engineers: Elementary Switched-Circuit Analysis… 2 copies

The Reunion 1 copy

Newtons Geschenk [Kurzgeschichte] 1 copy

Ein ruhiger, verregneter Nachmittag 1 copy

What Really Caused the Energy Crisis [short story] 1 copy

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Also by Paul J. Nahin

Microcosmic Tales (Contributor) 140 copies, 3 reviews

Day of the Tyrant (Contributor) 117 copies

Thor's Hammer (Contributor) 91 copies, 1 review

Space Mail II (Contributor) 63 copies

The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction (Contributor) 49 copies

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVIII, No. 7 (July 1978) (Contributor) 27 copies, 1 review

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVIII, No. 4 (April 1978) (Contributor) 27 copies

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVII, No. 10 (October 1977) (Contributor) 26 copies, 1 review

Kopernikus 5 (Author) 9 copies

Kopernikus 3 (Contributor, some editions) 8 copies

Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (Foreword) 6 copies

Omni Magazine April 1982 (Afterword) 2 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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