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Norbert Wiener

Born

in columbia, The United States

November 26, 1894

Died

March 18, 1964

Genre

Science, Nonfiction

Influences

André-Marie Ampère, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Henri Poincaré, Arturo ...more

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Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was Professor of Mathematics at MIT. Wiener is considered the father of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.

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	The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society 4.02 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 1949 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 1948 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God & Golem, Inc. 3.60 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1964 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood And Youth 3.89 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1964 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am Mathematician 3.97 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1956 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Norbert Wiener-A Life in Cybernetics: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy by Norbert Wiener, Norbert Wiener 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nonlinear Problems In Random Theory (Technology Press Research Monographs) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tempter liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1959	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Мое отношение к кибернетике. Ее прошлое и будущее 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

tags: cybernetics, intelligence, robots

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“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.”
― Norbert Weiner, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

tags: computers, cybernetics, economics, robots, slavery

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“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns
that perpetuate themselves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

tags: architecture, art, cybernetics, mapmaking, mental-map, mind-map, mind-mapping, mindset, norbert-wiener, patterns, perpetuate, shape, space, stuff-that-abides, time, we-are-not

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