Mathematician:Norbert Wiener

Mathematician

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

Nationality

American

History

• Born: November 26, 1894 in Columbia, Missouri
• Died: March 18, 1964 in 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
• Wiener Formalization of Ordered Pair

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

Results named for Norbert Wiener can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Norbert Wiener can be found here.

Publications

• 1914: A simplification in the logic of relations
• 1922: A New Vector Method in Integral Equations (MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics Vol. 1: pp. 1 – 20) (with Frank Lauren Hitchcock)
• 1930: Extrapolation, Interpolation and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series with Engineering Applications
• 1933: Notes on random functions (with Antoni Zygmund and Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley)
• 1948: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
• 1949: Extrapolation, Interpolation and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series
• 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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Norbert Wiener": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Wiener, Norbert (1899-1969)
• 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964)