Norbert Wiener
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Mathematics, Mathematicians, Scientists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present
Article abstract: Wiener was a distinguished American mathematician credited with a founding of cybernetics, a science which facilitates comparison of biological and electronic systems by focusing on communication, feedback, and control.
Early Life
In Ex-Prodigy (1964), the first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Norbert Wiener describes in detail his precocious youth and his relationship with his father, a brilliant and very forceful personality. Norbert Wiener’s father, Leo Wiener, was born in the ghetto area of czarist Russia. At the...
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