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

Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) served on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1919 until his death. In 1963, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his contributions to mathematics, engineering, and biological sciences. He was the author of many books, including Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics and the National Book Award-winning God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (both published by the MIT Press).

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11597.001.0001
ISBN electronic:
9780262347051
Publication date:
2018
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I: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

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Dedication

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Foreword to Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

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Introduction

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A Russian Irishman in Kansas City

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The Proper Missourians

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First Remembered Patterns: 1894–1901

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Cambridge to Cambridge, via New York and Vienna: June–September, 1901

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In the Sweat of My Brow: Cambridge, September 1901–September 1903

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Diversions of a Wunderkind

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A Child among Adolescents: Ayer High School, 1903–1906

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College Man in Short Trousers: September, 1906–June, 1909

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Neither Child nor Youth

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The Square Peg: Harvard, 19091910

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Disinherited: Cornell, 1910–1911

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Problems and Confusions: Summer, 1911

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A Philosopher Despite Himself: Harvard, 1911–1913

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Emancipation: Cambridge, June, 1913–April 1914

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A Traveling Scholar in Wartime: 1914–1915

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Trial Run: Teaching at Harvard and the University of Maine: 1915–1917

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Monkey Wrench, Paste Pot, and the Slide Rule War: 1917–1919

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The Return to Mathematics

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Epilogue

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