Table of Contents

Preface.- Part I: Scientific Chapters.- Chapter 1: Spatial Audio and Room Acoustics.- Chapter 2: The Early History of Ray Tracing in Acoustics.- Chapter 3: Advanced Room-Acoustics Decay Analysis.- Chapter 4: Estimating the cross-over time within room impulse responses.- Chapter 5: Are impulse responses Gaussian noises?.- Chapter 6: Recent applications of number-theoretic sequences in audio and acoustics.- Chapter 7: Where mathematics and hearing science meet: Low peak factor signals and their role in hearing research.- Chapter 8: Neurally-based acoustic and visual design.- Chapter 9: Manfred R. Schroeder: A personal memoir, Optimizing the reflection phase grating.- Chapter 10: Manfred R. Schroeder: Challenge the present and there is a better way.- Chapter 11: Transducer Research at Bell Laboratories under Manfred Schroeder.- Chapter 12: Manfred Schroeder and Acoustical Impedance.- Chapter 13: Research on Underwater Acoustics in Göttingen.- Part II: The Memoirs of Manfred R. Schroeder.- Chapter 14: Right Turns.- Chapter 15: School Years.- Chapter 16: July 1943.- Chapter 17: Radar.- Chapter 18: Lucky Breaks.- Chapter 19: The University of Göttingen.- Chapter 20: Bell Laboratories.- Chapter 21: The KGB.- Chapter 22: Professor of Physics.- Chapter 23: The German Language.- Chapter 24: Retirement and Beyond.- Chapter 25: The Year 2006.- Appendix: Bibliography of Manfred R. Schroeder’s Publications.- Index.

Reviews

“The first section being a series of chapters addressing in varying levels of detail the links between the works of Manfred Schroeder and current acoustics research topics and, the second, a collection of memoirs by Manfred Schroeder covering a significant span of time and topics. … any reader with an interest in any one of Manfred Schroeder’s areas of work will find many elements of this collection insightful and interesting … .” (Brian F. G. Katz, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 65 (4), April, 2017) “This book is a worthy memorial to his life and work. It takes the form of chapters by people who worked with him, followed by an autobiography which he wrote in the latter part of his life. … Reading this book will be particularly rewarding for those with interests in the more theoretical sides of acoustics, as well as for those who knew or are intrigued by one of the giants of 20th century acoustics.” (Mike Barron, Acoustics Bulletin, July-August, 2015)