Quotes by Wiener, Norbert

Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 - March 18, 1964) was a U.S. mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics. He coined the term in his book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (MIT Press, 1948), widely recognized as one of the most important books of contemporary scientific thinking. He is also considered to be the first American-born-and-trained mathematician on an intellectual par with the traditional bastions of mathematical learning in Europe. He thus represents a watershed period in American mathematics..