| Norbert Wiener  Born: 26-Nov-1894
Birthplace: Columbia, MO
Died: 18-Mar-1964
Location of death: Stockholm, Sweden
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Mathematician Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cybernetics Father: Leo Wiener (Harvard professor of Slavonic languages)
Mother: Bertha
High School: Ayer High School (1906)
University: Tufts University (1909)
University: PhD Mathematical Logic, Harvard University (1913)
Scholar: Cambridge University
Scholar: University of Göttingen
Teacher: University of Maine
Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Academy of Sciences 1933
National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, Religion 1965 for God and Golem, Inc.
Is the subject of books:
Norbert Wiener, 1894–1964, 1989, BY: Pesi R. Masani
Author of books:
Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series (1949)
Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
Ex-Prodigy (1953, memoir)
The Human Use of Human Beings (1954)
I Am a Mathematician (1956, memoir)
Nonlinear Problems in Random Theory (1958)
God and Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (1964)
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