Norbert Wiener 1894–1964Birkhäuser, 6 de dez. de 2012 - 402 páginas 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. |
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A Americas second Leibniz B The difficulties of a biographer | 28 |
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A An elevenyearold freshman at Tufts College B A semester | 43 |
A Wieners emancipation B The doctrine of types C The Tractatus | 65 |
World War I and Wieners Military Yearnings | 66 |
The Allotment of National Income Marriage and Wieners | 92 |
A The Teleological Society B The parallel evolutions of von Neumann | 249 |
A Cybernetics and its historical origins B The subjectmatter | 267 |
A Automatization and the labor movement B The educational chal | 281 |
D Wieners economic ideas E The control of conflict in civil society | 292 |
Wieners Excursion into the Religious Domain | 318 |
A The problem of evil B Phylogenetic corruption the Fall Homo | 324 |
longtime State The mandate from heaven F Sin grows with doing | 332 |
A Wieners literary work B Wieners theatrical initiatives C | 345 |
Max Born and Wieners Thoughts on Quantum Mechanics | 115 |
The Collaboration with E Hopf and R E A C Paley | 132 |
Birkhoffs Theorem and the Consolidation of Wieners | 139 |
Lee Bush and Wieners Thoughts on Networks | 160 |
B The LeeWiener network C Further work with Lee The refugee | 171 |
Bigelow and AntiAircraft Fire Control 19401945 | 181 |
Its military and scientific significance B Ideal | 195 |
A Rosenblueth friend and philosopher B Teleology in the animal | 207 |
McCulloch Pitts and the Evolution of Wieners | 218 |
A The lovable quirk B Wiener as public figure and teacher C | 356 |
science academies D Unobjective attitude towards Harvard E Wiener | 363 |
Academic Vita of Norbert Wiener | 372 |
Defense Department Documents | 391 |
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