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Paul J. Nahin, the Glossary

Paul J. Nahin (born November 26, 1940) is an American electrical engineer, author, and former college professor.^[1]

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Brea Olinda High School alumni
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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

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Bates College

Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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Brea Olinda High School

Brea Olinda High School is a 9th–12th grade public high school located in Brea, California.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.

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Centaurus (journal)

Centaurus.

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Chases and Escapes

Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion is a mathematics book on continuous pursuit–evasion problems.

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Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory" and as the "father of the Information Age".

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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Emeritus

Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".

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Euler's formula

Euler's formula, named after Leonhard Euler, is a mathematical formula in complex analysis that establishes the fundamental relationship between the trigonometric functions and the complex exponential function.

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European Mathematical Society

The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe.

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Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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George Boole

George Boole Jnr (2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland.

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Harvey Mudd College

Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering.

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Imaginary unit

The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number is a solution to the quadratic equation Although there is no real number with this property, can be used to extend the real numbers to what are called complex numbers, using addition and multiplication.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Isis (journal)

Isis is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Jed Buchwald

Jed Zachary Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech.

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Master of Science

A Master of Science (Magister Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree.

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Mathematical Association of America

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level.

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Mathematical Reviews

Mathematical Reviews is a journal published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) that contains brief synopses, and in some cases evaluations, of many articles in mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Monterey, California

Monterey (Monterrey) is a city in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast.

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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Founded in 1920, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is a professional organization for schoolteachers of mathematics in the United States.

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Naval Postgraduate School

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a public graduate school operated by the United States Navy and located in Monterey, California.

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New Scientist

New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.

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Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside FRS (18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was an English self-taught mathematician and physicist who invented a new technique for solving differential equations (equivalent to the Laplace transform), independently developed vector calculus, and rewrote Maxwell's equations in the form commonly used today.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Riemann hypothesis

In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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The Historian (journal)

The Historian is a history journal published quarterly by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the history honor society, Phi Alpha Theta.

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The Mathematical Intelligencer

The Mathematical Intelligencer is a mathematical journal published by Springer Science+Business Media that aims at a conversational and scholarly tone, rather than the technical and specialist tone more common among academic journals.

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Time travel

Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future.

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University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California.

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University of New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

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ZbMATH Open

zbMATH Open, formerly Zentralblatt MATH, is a major reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics, produced by the Berlin office of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_J._Nahin

Also known as Nahin, Paul, Nahin, Paul J., Paul Nahin.

Paul J. Nahin, the Glossary

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Brea Olinda High School alumni

Harvey Mudd College faculty

Naval Postgraduate School faculty

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