An Imaginary Tale
Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their der... »

Time Travel
A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel »

Chases And Escapes
The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion »

Number-Crunching
Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction »

When Least Is Best
How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible »

The Logician and the Engineer
How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age »

The Science of Radio
With MATLAB and Electronics Workbench Demonstrations »

Digital Dice
Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems (New in Paperback) »

When Least Is Best
How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things As Small (Or As Large) As Possible »

Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula
In the mid-eighteenth century, swissborn mathematician Leonhardt Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire research, d... »