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Genre/Form: | Biography collective biographies Biographies |
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Named Person: | Norbert Wiener; Norbert Wiener; Norbert Wiener; Norbert Wiener; Norbert Wiener |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Flo Conway; Jim Siegelman |
ISBN: | 0738203688 9780738203683 0465013716 9780465013715 |
OCLC Number: | 56656253 |
Description: | xv, 423 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: Time past, time present -- pt. 1: The elephant's child. The most remarkable boy in the world -- Young Wiener -- The Wunderkind and the Frau-Professor -- Weak currents, light computers -- Wienerwalks -- Birth of a science. -- pt. 2: In the court of cybernetics. The knights of circular causality -- Breakfast at Macy's -- The big bang : cybernetics -- Wienerwalks II -- Breach and betrayal. -- pt. 3: Aftermath. A scientist rebels -- A government reacts -- Wienerwalks III -- Homage to the elephant's child : The 'satiable soul of Norbert Wiener -- Childhood's end. -- Epilogue: Time future: surviving the global society. |
Responsibility: | Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman. |
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Abstract:
The story of Norbert Wiener, child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician
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- Cybernétique.
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