Norbert Wiener

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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.

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