Harmonies of Disorder

Harmonies of Disorder

Norbert Wiener: A Mathematician-Philosopher of Our Time

Montagnini, Leone

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2017

307

Dura

Inglês

9783319506562

15 a 20 dias


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Introduction.- PART I 1894-1918.- Chapter 1 - Roots.- Chapter 2 - Education.- Chapter 3 - A young Philosopher.- PART II 1919-1939.- Chapter 4 - A Mathematician at work.- Chapter 5 - Reflections on Science and Technology.- PART III. 1940-1945.- Chapter 6 - Military Research Projects.- PART IV - 1946-1964.- Chapter 7 - After Hiroshima and Nagasaki.- Chapter 8 - The book Cybernetics.- Ch. 9 - After Cybernetics.- Conclusions.- References.- Index of names.- Subject index.
Norbert Wiener biography;Norbert Wiener information philosopher;Originator of cybernetics;sociological aspects of Wiener's thought;Philosophy and sociology of science;Wiener modern information theory;Norbert Wiener and the second world war;Norbert Wiener and cybernetics