WIENER, Norbert

WIENER, Norbert
(1894-1964)
   US mathematician and writer who established the contemporary sense of the word CYBERNETICS in his book Cybernetics (1948; rev 1961). Some of his speculations in this field appear in The Human Use of HumanBeings (1950) and in God \& Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (1964), which directly influenced Frank HERBERT's Destination: Void (1966). As W. Norbert he published 2 sf stories, "The Miracle of the Broom Closet" in FSF (1952) and "The Brain" in Crossroad in Time (anth 1953) ed Groff CONKLIN. A novel, The Tempter (1959), is not sf. Ex-Prodigy (1953), nonfiction, is an interestingspeculative study of the intellectual SUPERMAN.
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   About the author: I Am a Mathematician (1956), autobiography.

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