Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I Am a Mathematician: The...

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Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ronald R. Kline (Cornell)

Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics

Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy

Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ronald R. Kline (Cornell)

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MIT Press
23 March 2018

Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; Cybernetics & systems theory

Series: Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics

Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume.

Norbert Wiener-A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics-when it was taken up by scientists, engineers, science fiction writers, artists, and musicians-Ex-Prodigy (1953) and I Am a Mathematician (1956) received attention from both scholarly and mainstream publications, garnering reviews and publicity in outlets that ranged from the New York Times and New York Post to the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Norbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In Ex-Prodigy, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.

By: Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Foreword by: Ronald R. Kline (Cornell)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 27mm
ISBN: 9780262535441
ISBN 10: 0262535440
Series: Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 23 March 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) served on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1919 until his death. In 1963, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his contributions to mathematics, engineering, and biological sciences. He was the author of many books, including Norbert Wiener-A Life in Cybernetics and the National Book Award-winning God & Golem, Inc.- A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (both published by the MIT Press).