He was one of the youngest to achieve such a feat. in June 1913, when he was only 19 years old, for a dissertation on mathematical logic a comparison of the work of Ernst Schröder with that of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, supervised by Karl Schmidt, the essential results of which were published as Wiener 1914. Back at Harvard, Wiener became influenced by Edward Vermilye Huntington, whose mathematical interests ranged from axiomatic foundations to engineering problems.
The next year he returned to Harvard, while still continuing his philosophical studies.
In 1910 he transferred to Cornell to study philosophy. He was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14, whereupon he began graduate studies of zoology at Harvard. In his autobiography, Norbert described his father as calm and patient, unless he Norbert failed to give a correct answer, at which his father would lose his temper.Ī child prodigy, he graduated from Ayer High School in 1906 at 11 years of age, and Wiener then entered Tufts College. Leo also had ample ability in mathematics and tutored his son in the subject until he left home. Earning his living teaching German and Slavic languages, Leo read widely and accumulated a personal library from which the young Norbert benefited greatly. Leo had educated Norbert at home until 1903, employing teaching methods of his own invention, except for a brief interlude when Norbert was 7 years of age. Through his father, he was related to Maimonides, the famous rabbi, philosopher and physician from Al Andalus, as well as to Akiva Eger, chief rabbi of Posen from 1815 to 1837. Wiener was born in Columbia, Missouri, the first child of Leo Wiener and Bertha Kahn, Jewish immigrants from Poland and Germany, respectively. Norbert Wiener is credited as being one of the first to theorize that all intelligent behavior was the result of feedback mechanisms, that could possibly be simulated by machines and was an important early step towards the development of modern artificial intelligence. Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, the science of communication as it relates to living things and machines, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the organization of society. A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT. Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher. The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves
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