Notice that they didn't write this:
A non-linear resistor is connected into the feedback circuit. In practice, this can be a resistor, but a resistor connected as a resistor is used since the forward biased transfer function is more accurately exponential. The exponential nature of the forward biased resistor leads to a logarithmic decrease in gain of the circuit as the input signal is increased.
I don't know. Maybe they are used to specific names, like calling their wifes Helen and Kate, and not just "woman".
They are in good company, tho. For example Bharathwaj Muthuswamy and Santo Banerjee, in their "
Introduction to Nonlinear Circuits and Networks", Springer (2019) say:
In order to be able to use nonlinear resistors effectively in a practical design, it is necessary to understand some basic properties.We will illustrate these properties by considering a prototypical example of a nonlinear resistor, the pn-junction diode (henceforth referred to as diode). Although we model diodes as nonlinear resistors, they are so important in circuit theory that they have their own symbol[...]
But, hey, what could they possibly know about circuits and nonlinear elements? They only wrote a book about them.
How many books have you written for Springer?