If you listen to WORT the traditional way, over the airwaves, you will hear a frequency modulated signal, peaking 89.9 million times each second. The technology that makes this possible, radio, is nearly a century old, and though we may take it for granted now, it remains an astounding achievement.

Going beyond the complex engineering oscillators and integrated circuits that make up a radio transmitter and receiver, radio waves have an inherent beauty perhaps best described in the language of mathematics.

Paul J. Nahin is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire, explains this elegant language in his new book, “The Mathematical Radio” from Princeton University Press. Professor Nahin talks about his book with the Monday Buzz.

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