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1 online resource |
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Intro; Contents; Foreword; Notes; Bibliography; I Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth; Dedication; Foreword to Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth; Introduction; 1 A Russian Irishman in Kansas City; 2 The Proper Missourians; 3 First Remembered Patterns; 4 Cambridge to Cambridge, via New York and Vienna; 5 In the Sweat of My Brow; Note; 6 Diversions of a Wunderkind; 7 A Child among Adolescents; 8 College Man in Short Trousers; 9 Neither Child nor Youth; Notes; 10 The Square Peg; 11 Disinherited; 12 Problems and Confusions; Note; 13 A Philosopher Despite Himself; Note; 14 Emancipation |
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15 A Traveling Scholar in Wartime16 Trial Run: Teaching at Harvard and the University of Maine; 17 Monkey Wrench, Paste Pot, and the Slide Rule War; 18 The Return to Mathematics; 19 Epilogue; II I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy; Dedication; Preface to I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy; 20 My Start as a Mathematician; 21 The International Mathematical Congress of 1920 at Strasbourg; 22 1920-1925. Years of Consolidation; Note; 23 The Period of My Travels Abroad-Max Born and Quantum Theory; Notes; 24 To Europe as a Guggenheim Fellow with My Bride |
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25 1927-1931. Years of Growth and Progress26 An Unofficial Cambridge Don; 27 Back Home; 28 Voices Prophesying War; 29 China and Around the World; 30 The Days before the War; 31 The War Years; 32 Mexico; 33 Moral Problems of a Scientist. The Atomic Bomb 1942-; 34 Nancy, Cybernetics, Paris, and After; 35 India; 36 Epilogue; Index |
| Summary |
Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
PDF viewed 06/05/2018 |
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Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964.
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Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964 fast |
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Cybernetics.
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Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
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cybernetics.
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Cybernetics
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Mathematicians
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United States
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Kline, Ronald R
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MIT Press, publisher
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| ISBN |
9780262347051 |
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0262347059 |
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