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.

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
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 → 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 → 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 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, United States →
placeOfDeath	Stockholm, Sweden →
religion	Judaism →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Margaret Engemann →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Harry Nyquist →	influenced
Marvin Minsky →	influencedBy
Brownian motion →	mathematicalFormalizationBy
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics →	namedAfter
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics →	namedAfterFullName
Bôcher Memorial Prize →	notableRecipient