Wiener's deeds

Norbert wiener (1894165438+1October 26th-1March 96418), an American applied mathematician, made great contributions to electronic engineering. He was a pioneer of random process and noise process, and put forward the word "cybernetics".

He was born in Columbia, Missouri. His father Leo Weiner is a Polish Jewish immigrant and his mother is a German Jew. Leo is a Slavic lecturer at Harvard University. He cultivated Norbert by his own high-pressure method. With his talent and his father's training, he became a child prodigy. 1903, start school; 1906 (12 years old), graduated from high school and entered Tufts College to study mathematics in September of the same year; At the age of 1909 (15), he had obtained a bachelor's degree and entered Harvard University to study zoology. A year later, he went to Cornell University to study philosophy. 19 12 years old received a doctorate in mathematical logic.

He studied with Russell and Hardy in Cambridge, England, and with david hilbert and Edmund Landau in 19 14. Then he returned to Cambridge and went to America. From 19 15 to 16, he studied Buddhist philosophy in Kazakhstan, and later worked for General Electric and Damei Encyclopedia. During the war, he studied ballistics at Aberdeen proving ground in Maryland. After the war, he taught mathematics at MIT. His teaching skills are poor, and he is often joking or absent-minded.

While teaching at MIT, he went to Europe from time to time. 1926 married a German immigrant. They have two daughters. He mainly studied Brownian motion, Fourier transform, harmonic analysis, Dirichlet problem and Taubell type theorem in Gottingen and Cambridge.

During World War II, his work on gun control aroused his interest in communication theory and contributed to the birth of cybernetics. A strange thing happened after the war. He invited young scholars from artificial intelligence, computer science and neuropsychology to MIT. When these scholars arrived, he suddenly cut off all contact. This may be caused by his neurotic personality.

After World War II, he paid more attention to the political influence of scientific research and the military use of science. He refused to work for the military machine.

He died in Stockholm, Sweden on 1964.