Grandfather Solomon Wiener hailed from a Jewish family of scholarly journalists living in Krotoschin in Russia.

Masani, Pesi Rustom

by Pesi R. Masani

Basel ; Boston: Birkhäuser

Birkhäuser Verlag

Birkhäuser Boston

Birkhäuser GmbH

Springer Basel

Birkhauser

Vita mathematica ;, v. 5, Basel, Boston, Switzerland, 1990

United States, United States of America

1 edition, December 1, 1989

Germany, Germany

1990, PS, 1989

Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 377-390.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

416 pages : 23 cm
Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the organization of society. Wiener thought on a grand scale and stressed the adaptation of technical concepts from pure mathematics and electrical engineering outside their technical contexts. Masani's interesting and thoughtful book analyses both Wiener's mathematical and his nonmathematical ideas in sympathetic and sensitive detail. Readers will find much to appreciate in this book, in addition to the discussion of Wiener's technical research
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-399) and indexes
Prologue -- Count Tolstoy and Wiener's father -- New England and Wiener's early training, 1901-1905 -- Harvard and Wiener's university training, 1906-1913 -- Bertrand Russell and Wiener's postdoctoral years, 1914-1917 -- World War I and Wiener's military yearnings -- From postulate systems to the Brownian motion and potential theory -- The allotment of national income, marriage, and Wiener's academic career -- From communications engineering to generalized harmonic analysis and Tauberian theory -- Max Born and Wiener's thoughts on quantum mechanics and unified field theory -- The collaboration with E. Hopf and R.E.A.C. Paley -- Birkhoff's theorem and consolidation of Wiener's ideas on statistical physics -- Lee, Bush, and Wiener's thoughts on networks and computers -- Bigelow and anti-aircraft fire control, 1940-1945 -- Arturo Rosenblueth and Wiener's work in physiology -- McCulloch, Pitts and the evolution of Wiener's neurophysiological ideas -- The cybernetical movement and von Neumann's letter, 1946 -- Cybernetics -- The second industrial revolution and its educational, economic and social challenges -- Wiener on global policy and military science; von Neumann's position; science and human welfare -- Wiener's excursion into the religious domain -- Wiener's literary predilections and initiatives; his concept of art -- Wiener, the man and the teacher : authenticity and prejudice in his attitudes and writings -- Epilogue

By Pesi R. Masani. Includes Index. Bibliography: P.392-399. Bibliography Of Norbert Wiener: P. 377-390.

MASANI, P. NORBERT WIENER 1894-1964. BASEL, 1990, 416 p. fotografias.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Vita Mathematica
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1989

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