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Episode: "The Mathematical Radio" by Paul Nahin
Description: If you don't understand math, you can still enjoy Paul Nahin.Don't get blinded by the 24 books the professor of electric engineering has written or that he's busily at work on book 25.The longtime University of New Hampshire faculty member has just published The Mathematical Radio, a book complete with equations and diagrams.One needs only the familiarity of advanced high-school-level math to follow along. But don't be deterred. Nahin isn't just involved with electromagnetic fields and frequencies. He loves radio."Radio is perhaps the single most important electronic invention of all, surpassing even the...