Question for Jim Thompson and other Brass Rats

Guillemin was still teaching when I was there, but I was in VI-B (honors EE), so I had Harry B. Lee for passive networks... a VERY good instructor.

Guillemin was viewed as somewhat flaky with his "cutesy-isms". Lee was very practical and related to the real world... Guillemin thought the only values were 1 Ohm, 1 Henry and 1 Farad ;-)

BTW: It's _Ernst_ Adolph Guillemin, not Ernest.

...Jim Thompson

Hi Jim,

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

At the time I suppose that wasn't surprising.

...and 1 rad/s. He is also fond of Darafs.

Thanks.

I took network theory from Gabor Temes -- who I suppose could be considered one generation younger than Guillemin -- and it's interesting to notice how much less depth there was in his class (and his book where many of the course notes were drawn from) than what Guillemin's book provides. Although university courses are generally less in-depth than when you went to school, I attribute this partially to the broader curriculum now required. (I.e., you didn't spend time learning HTML so that your final project reports included a web page...)

You can let me know if my view of post-WW II up until the '70s as being the "golden age" of analog circuit design is incorrect or not. :-)

---Joel

Yep :-( FORTUNATELY, H.B.Lee taught from handed-out notes... I may still have them around here somewhere. He was _extraordinarily_ thorough, as you will note from my occasionally posted node/loop analyses... IT REALLY SUNK IN ;-)

I think that's so... I'm not real enamored at even MIT's latest grads... _broadly_ ignorant :-(

Certainly correct!

...Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

We keep bugging you to write a book, so at least for the first few introductory chapters on circuit analysis... looks like you can just cross off Lee's name and send'em to the publisher! :-)

Just kidding...

If you do come across Lee's notes some time, I'd be happy to scan'em and turn them into PDFs. (Did he ever write a book?)

Speaking of books... I picked up a copy of Herrero & Willoner's "Synthesis of Filters" that you mentioned awhile back. Good stuff... I had never heard of "cumulant notation" before; it's quite elegant.

---Joel

I did try finding where Lee went to. Looks like he faded into the real world and became involved in several start-ups ;-)

That's the best filter book I own! Once-upon-a-time I had some of those techniques programmed into my old TI "card-reader" calculator... TI86 ?? Or was it hp? Ain't old age grand?

I've been tempted to learn programming and re-do that work for the PC, but then someone shoves more money at my face ;-)

...Jim Thompson

hear hear! I got it based on Jims recommendation, and loved it. so simple and as you say elegant. nowadays though, students just smash these problems with a matlab-shaped hammer, which is I guess why I got no more than a cursory introduction at Uni.

I have a number of Guillemins books.

Hi

Is the book of tiler desing available in Amazon ?

Greetings

Terry Given ha escrito:

Not that I can see. Abebooks.com lists someone selling a copy for $21.37. Powells.com is also a good place to look for these older, out-of-print tomes.

I did have to wait the better part of a year before I found a copy of Guillemin's synthesis book that was halfway sanely priced (

Junkyards had what they referred to as "The intercom", which was a leased pair connecting dozens, or even hundreds of junkyards back in the early '70s via Bell System speakerphones. it was kind of funny listening to someone yelling out what they wanted, sometimes to an immediate response, and other times they would repeat themselves for hours, till they gave up. I bought parts from several junkyards that were tie to the same system.