Invention The Care and Feeding of Ideas |
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Author:
| Wiener, Norbert |
Introduction by:
| Heims, Steve J. |
ISBN: | 978-0-262-23167-1 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1993 |
Publisher: | MIT Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $113.00 |
Book Description:
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Norbert Wiener was no ordinary mathematician. With the ability to understand how things worked or might work at a very deep level, he linked his own mathematics to engineering and provided basic ideas for the design of all sorts of inventions, from radar to communications networks to computers to artificial limbs.
Norbert Wiener was no ordinary mathematician. With the ability to understand how things worked or might work at a very deep level, he linked his own mathematics to engineering and provided basic ideas for the design of all sorts of inventions, from radar to communications networks to computers to artificial limbs.