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Nahin (born November 26, 1940) is an American engineer and author who has written 18 books on topics in physics and mathematics, including biographies of Oliver Heaviside, George Boole, and Claude Shannon, books on mathematical concepts such as Euler's formula and the imaginary unit, and a number of books on the physics and philosophical puzzles of time travel. He is the best-selling author of many popular-math books, including Duelling Idiot... view more Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Lynn Gamwell is an American nonfiction author and art curator known for her books on art history, the history of mathematics, the history of science, and their connections such as mathematics and art. Nail Hairullovich Ibragimov was a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist; at his death he was a professor emeritus at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Welcome back. It was written by Paul J. 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To add more books, An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One, Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills, Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction, The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age. Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Paul J. Nahin Last updated February 23, 2020. He received the 2017 Chandler Davis Prize for Excellence in Expository Writing in Mathematics and, in 1979, the first Harry Rowe Mimno writing award from the IEEE Areospace and Electronic Systems Society. Oliver Heaviside FRS was an English self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques for the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis.