Ex-prodigy (MIT paperback series): My Childhood and Youth (The MIT Press) - Softcover

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9780262730082: Ex-prodigy (MIT paperback series): My Childhood and Youth (The MIT Press)

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ISBN 10: 0262730081 ISBN 13: 9780262730082

Publisher: MIT Press, 1964

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These two volumes (I Am Mathematician and Ex-Prodigy) comprise Norbert Wiener's autobiography. Sometimes with humor and sometimes with sadness, they render an account, without sentiment, of the life of the world-renowned mathematician and scientist. An unusual life story, Norbert Wiener's penetrating observations accompany the fascinating details describing the maturation of a major world scientist.

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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 science. He was the author of many books, with Cybernetics: On Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and God and Golem: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion among the most well-known.

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