Paul J. Nahin is the author of many best-selling popular math books, including Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt , Digital Dice , Chases and Escapes , Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula , When Least Is Best , and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
Great stories. Interesting and challenging problems. Instructive MATLAB code. Lots of physics. That's my in-a-nutshell assessment... Nahin takes on the subject of using computers to solve difficult problems, many in physics, that couldn't be solved before computers... This is one of those books that one can read as a spectator, enjoying the scenery, taking in the landscape, appreciating the rich stories--my relationship with the book--or one can dive in, study the many equations, run the code, and have a personal experience of how problems that were unsolvable just a few decades ago have succumbed to computers. -- Sol Lederman, Wild About Math