Norbert Wiener — A Life in Cybernetics: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy (MIT Press)

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Norbert Wiener’s celebrated autobiography, to be had for the primary time in one volume.

Norbert Wiener — A Life in Cybernetics combines for the primary time the 2 volumes of Norbert Wiener’s celebrated autobiography. Published on the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics — when it used to be 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 used to be a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener used to be 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 kid prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and the way he established the rules for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the speculation of feedback systems. This volume makes to be had the essence of Wiener’s life and thought to a brand new generation of readers.

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