Invention

The Care and Feeding of Ideas

By:

Norbert Wiener

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The MIT Press

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Internationally honoured for brilliant achievements throughout his career, Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was an insightful observer of the role of science in society. This work, written in 1954 but only now published for the first time, can be read as a salutary critique of events in science that Wiener accurately predicted and a chance to rethink the components of a social and political climate that encourages inventiveness.

Author Biography:

Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) served on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1919 until his death. In 1963, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his contributions to mathematics, engineering, and biological sciences. He was the author of many books, including Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics and the National Book Award-winning God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (both published by the MIT Press). Steve J. Heims, once a research physicist, had devoted his attention to the history of twentieth century science for the last two decades.

Release date Australia

August 22nd, 1994

Author

Norbert Wiener

Audiences

Further/Higher Education
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Foreword by Steve Joshua Heims

Pages

186

Series

The MIT Press

Dimensions

132x201x13

ISBN-13

9780262731119

Product ID

3670985

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