Norbert Wiener

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American mathematician founder of cybernetics human mathematician philosopher

Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher best known as the founder of cybernetics and for his pioneering work in stochastic processes and harmonic analysis.

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Norbert Wiener canonical 26

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instanceOf American mathematician ⓘ
founder of cybernetics ⓘ
human ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ
philosopher ⓘ
academicDegree PhD in mathematical logic ⓘ
awardReceived Bôcher Memorial Prize ⓘ
National Medal of Science ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1894-11-26 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1964-03-18 ⓘ
educatedAt Cornell University ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ
Tufts College ⓘ
Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form: University of Cambridge

University of Göttingen ⓘ
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
familyName Wiener ⓘ
father Leo Wiener ⓘ
fieldOfWork control theory ⓘ
cybernetics ⓘ
harmonic analysis ⓘ
mathematical analysis ⓘ
signal processing ⓘ
stochastic processes ⓘ
givenName Norbert ⓘ
influenced cybernetics research ⓘ
information theory ⓘ
systems theory ⓘ
knownFor Wiener filter ⓘ
Brownian motion ⓘ
surface form: Wiener process

Wiener–Khinchin theorem ⓘ
founding cybernetics ⓘ
work on Brownian motion ⓘ
work on harmonic analysis ⓘ
work on stochastic processes ⓘ
languageSpoken French ⓘ
German ⓘ
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
movement cybernetics ⓘ
nativeLanguage English ⓘ
notableWork Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine ⓘ
Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series ⓘ
The Fourier Integral and Certain of Its Applications ⓘ
The Human Use of Human Beings ⓘ
occupation author ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth Columbia, Missouri ⓘ
surface form: Columbia, Missouri, United States
placeOfDeath Stockholm ⓘ
surface form: Stockholm, Sweden
religion Judaism ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
spouse Margaret Engemann ⓘ

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Brownian motion → mathematicalFormalizationBy → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Marvin Minsky → influencedBy → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Bôcher Memorial Prize → notableRecipient → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Harry Nyquist → influenced → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics → namedAfter → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics → namedAfterFullName → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award → hasNotableRecipient → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Norbert → hasNotableBearer → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Wiener → hasNotableBearer → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Wiener → namedAfter → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
subject surface form: Wiener process
Wiener → namedAfter → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
subject surface form: Wiener filter
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine → author → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
The Human Use of Human Beings → author → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series → author → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
The Fourier Integral and Certain of Its Applications → author → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Wiener filter → namedAfter → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Wiener filter → developedBy → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Wiener–Khinchin theorem → namedAfter → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
David Slepian → influencedBy → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Harry → influenced → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
subject surface form: Harry Nyquist
Leo Wiener → notableStudent → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Leo Wiener → child → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
David Marr → influencedBy → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Wiener measure → namedAfter → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Darwin Among the Machines → referencesPerson → Norbert Wiener ⓘ
Margaret Engemann → spouse → Norbert Wiener ⓘ