{"product_id":"9780262535441","title":"Norbert Wiener-A Life in Cybernetics: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eWiener, Norbert; Kline, Ronald R.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eThe MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics \u003c\/i\u003ecombines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics—when it was taken up by scientists, engineers, science fiction writers, artists, and musicians—\u003ci\u003eEx-Prodigy\u003c\/i\u003e (1953) and \u003ci\u003eI Am a Mathematician\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) received attention from both scholarly and mainstream publications, garnering reviews and publicity in outlets that ranged from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In \u003ci\u003eEx-Prodigy\u003c\/i\u003e, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In \u003ci\u003eI Am a Mathematician,\u003c\/i\u003e Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43374460829951,"sku":"9780262535441","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780262535441_s600x595.jpg?v=1782146934","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780262535441","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}