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* ''Cybernetics'', 1948.
 
* ''Cybernetics'', 1948.
 
* ''The Human Use of Human Beings'', The Riverside Press (Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1950, 1954 revised.
 
* ''The Human Use of Human Beings'', The Riverside Press (Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1950, 1954 revised.
* ''Selected Papers of Norbert Wiener'', Cambridge Mass (MIT Press & SIAM), 1964.
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* ''Selected Papers of Norbert Wiener'', Expository papers by Y. W. Lee, Norman Levinson, and W. T. Martin, Cambridge Mass (MIT Press & SIAM), 1964.
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; Autobiography
 
; Autobiography
 
* ''Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth'', MIT Press, 1953.
 
* ''Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth'', MIT Press, 1953.
 
* ''I am a Mathematician'', London Gollancz, 1956.
 
* ''I am a Mathematician'', London Gollancz, 1956.
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==Bibliography==
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* [http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.bams/1183527588 "Bibliography of Norbert Wiener", ''Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.'', Volume 72, Number 1, Part 2 (1966), 135-145]
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener Wiener on Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener Wiener on Wikipedia]
 
* http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc22.html
 
* http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc22.html

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Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was Professor of Mathematics at MIT. Wiener is considered the father of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.

Literature

Books
  • Cybernetics, 1948.
  • The Human Use of Human Beings, The Riverside Press (Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1950, 1954 revised.
  • Selected Papers of Norbert Wiener, Expository papers by Y. W. Lee, Norman Levinson, and W. T. Martin, Cambridge Mass (MIT Press & SIAM), 1964.
Autobiography
  • Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth, MIT Press, 1953.
  • I am a Mathematician, London Gollancz, 1956.

Bibliography

Links