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Author : Norbert Wiener
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book I Am a Mathematician, the Later Life of a Prodigy written by Norbert Wiener and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norbert Wiener
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262535440
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Norbert Wiener-A Life in Cybernetics written by Norbert Wiener and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume. Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics—when it was taken up by scientists, engineers, science fiction writers, artists, and musicians—Ex-Prodigy (1953) and I Am a Mathematician (1956) received attention from both scholarly and mainstream publications, garnering reviews and publicity in outlets that ranged from the New York Times and New York Post to the Virginia Quarterly Review. Norbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In Ex-Prodigy, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.
Author : Norbert Wiener
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262730082
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ex-Prodigy written by Norbert Wiener and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Flo Conway
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786735619
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dark Hero of the Information Age written by Flo Conway and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics, catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and his ardent social activism.Based on a wealth of primary sources and exclusive access to Wiener's closest family members, friends, and colleagues, Dark Hero of the Information Age reveals this eccentric genius as an extraordinarily complex figure. No one interested in the intersection of technology and culture will want to miss this epic story of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and colorful figures.
Author : Norbert Wiener
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book I Am a Mathematician written by Norbert Wiener and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Padgett
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544045645
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Struck by Genius written by Jason Padgett and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From head trauma to scientific wonder—a “deeply absorbing . . . fascinating” true story of acquired savant syndrome (Entertainment Weekly). Twelve years ago, Jason Padgett had never made it past pre-algebra. But a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain worked. It turned an ordinary math-averse student into an extraordinary young man with a unique gift to see the world as no one else does: water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. As his ability to understand physics skyrocketed, the “accidental genius” developed the astonishing ability to draw the complex geometric shapes he saw everywhere. Overcoming huge setbacks and embracing his new mind, Padgett “gained a vision of the world that is as beautiful as it is challenging.” Along the way he fell in love, found joy in numbers, and spent plenty of time having his head examined (The New York Times Book Review). Illustrated with Jason’s stunning, mathematically precise artwork, his singular story reveals the wondrous potential of the human brain, and “an incredible phenomenon which points toward dormant potential—a little Rain Man perhaps—within us all” (Darold A. Treffert, MD, author of Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant). “A tale worthy of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! . . . This memoir sends a hopeful message to families touched by brain injury, autism, or neurological damage from strokes.” —Booklist “How extraordinary it is to contemplate the bizarre gifts that might lie within all of us.” —People
Author : Norbert Wiener
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ex-prodigy written by Norbert Wiener and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Hoffman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0306836564
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers written by Paul Hoffman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history." --The Seattle Times Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, he'd move on to the next place, the next solution. Hoffman's book, like Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a genius's life that transcended the merely quirky. But Erdos's brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nash's despairing schizophrenia. Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. Oliver Sacks writes of Erdos: "A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject--he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until the day he died. He traveled constantly, living out of a plastic bag, and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art--all that is usually indispensable to a human life." The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is easy to love, despite his strangeness. It's hard not to have affection for someone who referred to children as "epsilons," from the Greek letter used to represent small quantities in mathematics; a man whose epitaph for himself read, "Finally I am becoming stupider no more"; and whose only really necessary tool to do his work was a quiet and open mind. Hoffman, who followed and spoke with Erdos over the last 10 years of his life, introduces us to an undeniably odd, yet pure and joyful, man who loved numbers more than he loved God--whom he referred to as SF, for Supreme Fascist. He was often misunderstood, and he certainly annoyed people sometimes, but Paul Erdos is no doubt missed. --Therese Littleton
Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476763496
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Man Who Knew Infinity written by Robert Kanigel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.
Author : Milo Beckman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524745561
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Math Without Numbers written by Milo Beckman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful subject. Like the classic math allegory Flatland, first published over a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach forty years ago, there has never been a math book quite like Math Without Numbers. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi or zero or infinity. This book goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected, useful connections to the real world. The ambitions of this book take a special kind of author. An inventive, original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen, when he was a sophomore at Harvard; while writing this book, he was studying the philosophical foundations of physics at Columbia under Brian Greene, among others.
