Nortbert Wiener: Collected Works. With commentaries. Volume I [1] [One]: Mathematical Philosophy and Foundations; Potential Theory; Brownian Movement, Wiener Integrals, Ergodic and Chaos Theories, Turbulence and Statistical Mechanics. Volume II [2] [Two]: Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Tauberian Theory; Classical Harmonic and Complex Analysis. Volume III [3] [Three]: The Hopf-Wiener Integral Equation; Prediction and Filtering; Quantum Mechanics and Relativity; Miscellanous Mathematical Papers. Three volumes, Vols. I-III (of 4).

WIENER, Norbert; MASANI, P. [Pesi] (ed.):

ISBN 10: 0262231077 / ISBN 13: 9780262231077

Published by Cambridge & London: MIT Press, 1976-79-81., 1981

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nortbert Wiener: Collected Works. With commentaries. Volume I [1] [One]: Mathematical Philosophy and Foundations; Potential Theory; Brownian Movement, Wiener Integrals, Ergodic and Chaos Theories, Turbulence and Statistical Mechanics. Volume II [2] [Two]: Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Tauberian Theory; Classical Harmonic and Complex Analysis. Volume III [3] [Three]: The Hopf-Wiener Integral Equation; Prediction and Filtering; Quantum Mechanics and Relativity; Miscellanous Mathematical ...
• Publisher: Cambridge & London: MIT Press, 1976-79-81.
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262231077
• ISBN 13: 9780262231077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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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.

Volume I, published in 1976, included Wiener's contributions to mathematical philosophy and foundations, potential theory, Brownian movement, Wiener integrals, ergodic and chaos theories, and turbulence and statistical mechanics.

Volume II collected his work on generalized harmonic analysis and Tauberian theory and on classical, harmonic, and complex analysis. A projected fourth and final volume will bring together Wiener's papers on cybernetics as well as essays and articles on nonscientific subjects.

P. Masani, editor of the Collected Works, is University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburg and a former collaborator of Wiener. This book is twentieth in the series Mathematicians of Our Time.