Mathematician (26-Nov-1894 — 18-Mar-1964)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Felix E. Browder. Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. 1966. 145pp.

Jim Siegelman, Flo Conway. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, Father of Cybernetics. Jackson, TN: Basic Books. 2005. 423pp.

Steve J. Heims. John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1980. 547pp.

Pesi R. Masani. Norbert Wiener 1894-1964. Berlin: Birkhäuser. 1990. 416pp.

Leone Montagnini. Le armonie del disordine: Norbert Wiener matematico-filosofo del Novecento. Venice, Italy: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. 2005. 314pp. Language: Italian.

Norbert Wiener. Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood And Youth. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1953. 309pp.

Norbert Wiener. I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy. New York: Doubleday. 1956. 380pp.

ARTICLES

1. In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots
   by John Markoff. The New York Times, 20-May-2013.

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7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.1221)

8. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.821)

9. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.753)

10. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1555)

11. Webster's American Biographies (p.1132)

12. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.439a)

13. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.794)

14. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.515)

15. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.512)

16. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.538)

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