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[8], 145 pages. Magazine; H 24cm x L 15cm. Blue paper covers, slight color fading along spine. Pages are clean and binding is firm. A very good+ copy. Single issue only of the bimonthly journal. Features the following: "Wiener's Life" by N. Levinson; "From Philosophy to Mathematics to Biology" by Walter Rosenblith and Jerome Wiesner; "Norbert Wiener and Potential Theory" by M. Brelot; "Norbert Wiener at l'Analyse de Fourier" by J.P. Kahane; "Les Tauberiens Generaux de Norbert Wiener" by S. Mandelbrojt; "Wiener and Integration of Function Spaces" by M. Kac; "Wiener's Work in Probability Theory" by J.L. Doob; "Wiener's Contributions to Generalized Harmonic Analysis, Prediction Theory and Filter Theory" by P. Masani; "Contributions of Norbert Wiener to Communication Theory" by William L. Root; and "Bibliography of Norbert Wiener.".…

Condition: Age-toning, otherwise VG+. 1st Printing. 63 - 122 pp, with Wiener's contribution, pp 103 - 122. 8vo. 23.5cm x 16cm. Includes articles by C.L.E. Moore, George Rutledge, Lepine Hall Rice, Frederick Keyes, J.L. Walsh and Norbert Wiener. Gray printed wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second paperback printings (1st eds., 1953-56, 1st paperback printings, 1964). [x], 309, [1=ads] pp; 1 leaf (ads), 380 pp. Original wrappers. A Near Fine 'set.'.

Condition: Vg. MIT. Volume XVII no. 4, January 1939. sm4to wraps. Wiener articles on pp. 233-258. Vg light cover wear; no ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 761 pp; portrait; xiii, 969 pp; portrait; xiii, 753 pp; portrait. Original cloth, small 4to. A Near Fine, three-fourths of a set, in near fine dust jackets. Lacks Vol. IV: Cybernetics, Science, and Society; Ethics, Aesthetics, and Literary Criticism; Book Reviews and Obituaries (1986, ISBN: 0262231239, in print at US$120; the other volumes are out of print). 'Norbert Wiener's scientific contributions not only spanned numerous branches of mathematics but also mathematical philosophy, quantum mechanics and relativity theory, and the field he christened 'cybernetics' - a synthesis of communication and control engineering, the physiology of the heart and the nervous system, brain wave encephalography, and sensory prosthesis. His scholarly work also included incisive social, education, and literary essays. The object of these volumes of Collected Works is not only to reprint all of Wiener's scientific and scholarly papers but also to place them in the context of present-day research by means of commentaries written by contemporary authorities that trace both their genesis and their influence on subsequent work. Commentaries on the papers in Volume III were written by E. J. Akutowicz, D. Bohm, G. Freud, Sir Dennis Gabor, A. E. Heins, T. Hida, E. Hille, T. Kailath, G. Kallianpur, M. Kanter, P. Masani, L. T. McAuley, P. S. Muhly, E. Nelson, J. Pincus, E. E. Robinson, H. Salehi, A Siegel, A. H. Taub, and M. S. Vallarta. . . . P. Masani, editor of the Collected Works, is University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburg and a former collaborator of Wiener' (MIT Press Web site). Mathematicians of Our Time 10, 15, 20. ISBN for Volume I: 0262230704. ISBN for Volume II: 0262230925. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 761 pp; portrait; xiii, 969 pp; portrait; xiii, 753 pp; portrait. Original cloth, small 4to. A Near Fine, three-fourths of a set, in near fine dust jackets. Lacks Vol. IV: Cybernetics, Science, and Society; Ethics, Aesthetics, and Literary Criticism; Book Reviews and Obituaries (1986, ISBN: 0262231239, in print at US$120; the other volumes are out of print). 'Norbert Wiener's scientific contributions not only spanned numerous branches of mathematics but also mathematical philosophy, quantum mechanics and relativity theory, and the field he christened 'cybernetics' - a synthesis of communication and control engineering, the physiology of the heart and the nervous system, brain wave encephalography, and sensory prosthesis. His scholarly work also included incisive social, education, and literary essays. The object of these volumes of Collected Works is not only to reprint all of Wiener's scientific and scholarly papers but also to place them in the context of present-day research by means of commentaries written by contemporary authorities that trace both their genesis and their influence on subsequent work. Commentaries on the papers in Volume III were written by E. J. Akutowicz, D. Bohm, G. Freud, Sir Dennis Gabor, A. E. Heins, T. Hida, E. Hille, T. Kailath, G. Kallianpur, M. Kanter, P. Masani, L. T. McAuley, P. S. Muhly, E. Nelson, J. Pincus, E. E. Robinson, H. Salehi, A Siegel, A. H. Taub, and M. S. Vallarta. . . . P. Masani, editor of the Collected Works, is University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburg and a former collaborator of Wiener' (MIT Press Web site). Mathematicians of Our Time 10, 15, 20. ISBN for Volume II: 0262230925. ISBN for volume III: 0262231077. …

Condition: Vg. MIT. Volume XVII no. 4, January 1939. sm4to wraps. Wiener articles on pp. 233-258. Vg light cover wear; no ownership marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 761 pp; portrait; xiii, 969 pp; portrait; xiii, 753 pp; portrait. Original cloth, small 4to. A Near Fine, three-fourths of a set, in near fine dust jackets. Lacks Vol. IV: Cybernetics, Science, and Society; Ethics, Aesthetics, and Literary Criticism; Book Reviews and Obituaries (1986, ISBN: 0262231239, in print at US$120; the other volumes are out of print). 'Norbert Wiener's scientific contributions not only spanned numerous branches of mathematics but also mathematical philosophy, quantum mechanics and relativity theory, and the field he christened 'cybernetics' - a synthesis of communication and control engineering, the physiology of the heart and the nervous system, brain wave encephalography, and sensory prosthesis. His scholarly work also included incisive social, education, and literary essays. The object of these volumes of Collected Works is not only to reprint all of Wiener's scientific and scholarly papers but also to place them in the context of present-day research by means of commentaries written by contemporary authorities that trace both their genesis and their influence on subsequent work. Commentaries on the papers in Volume III were written by E. J. Akutowicz, D. Bohm, G. Freud, Sir Dennis Gabor, A. E. Heins, T. Hida, E. Hille, T. Kailath, G. Kallianpur, M. Kanter, P. Masani, L. T. McAuley, P. S. Muhly, E. Nelson, J. Pincus, E. E. Robinson, H. Salehi, A Siegel, A. H. Taub, and M. S. Vallarta. . . . P. Masani, editor of the Collected Works, is University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburg and a former collaborator of Wiener' (MIT Press Web site). Mathematicians of Our Time 10, 15, 20. ISBN for Volume I: 0262230704. ISBN for volume III: 0262231077. …