In 1950, major changes began in electronic circuits. During World War II electronic devices as well as television were entering the consumer market. The number of electronics courses and laboratories were on the rise. Pulse circuits, as described in the MIT Radiation Laboratory series, became a course of study as an alternative means of viewing electron tube circuits. This was later distilled in the book Pulse and Digital Circuits by Jacob Millman and Herbert Taub. With the publication of Pulse and Digital Circuits in 1956, Jacob Millman and Herbert Taub became legends in their own lifetime.

Millman and Taub brought in all the significant developments of pulse circuits in their nascent age and built Pulse and Digital Circuits published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, in 1956. In the preface to this textbook, Millman and Taub wrote: “The philosophy of presentation which the authors have adopted has been to analyze a circuit on a physical basis so as to provide a clear understanding and intuitive feeling for its behaviour. Mathematics (through differential equations) is used wherever required but only after the physical motivation behind the mathematics has been discussed. Since this text is intended for a course in electronics and not one in differential equations, the authors feel justified in omitting some of the mathematical details of solution. In most cases the roots of the characteristic equation (the poles of the transfer function) are examined carefully, since these provide a great deal of insight into the nature of the response. Then the analytical solution is written down, the response is plotted, and its physical significance is studied. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the solution (either by the classical or the Laplace transform method) of linear differential equations with constant coefficients.”

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