Mathematician:Norbert Wiener

American mathematician who worked mainly in computer science, stochastic processes and cybernetics.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: November 26, 1894, Columbia, Missouri
 * Died: March 18, 1964, Stockholm, Sweden

Theorems and Definitions

 * Wiener Equation
 * Wiener Filter
 * Wiener Process
 * Wiener's Tauberian Theorem
 * Paley-Wiener Theorem (with Raymond Paley)
 * Wiener-Khinchin Theorem (with Aleksandr Khinchin)
 * Abstract Wiener Space
 * Classical Wiener Space


 * Discovered what is now called a Banach Space at the same time as Stefan Banach.

Books and Papers

 * 1914: A simplification in the logic of relations
 * 1930: Extrapolation, Interpolation and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series with Engineering Applications
 * 1948: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
 * 1950: The Human Use of Human Beings
 * 1952: The Brain and other short science fiction (fiction: under the name W. Norbert)
 * 1953: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth (autobiography)
 * 1956: I am a Mathematician (autobiography)
 * 1958: Nonlinear Problems in Random Theory
 * 1959: The Tempter (fiction)
 * 1966: Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Tauberian Theorems
 * 1966: God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
 * 1988: The Fourier Integral and Certain of its Applications
 * 1994: Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas