Masani P.R. Norbert Wiener 1894-1964

Birkhäuser/Springer, 1990. - 416 p.
This book attempts to trace the interaction between mathematical genius and history that has led to the conception of a stochastic cosmos.Count Tolstoy and Wiener’s Father.
New England and Wiener’s Early Training, 1901–1905.
Harvard and Wiener’s University Training, 1906–1913.
Bertrand Russell and Wiener’s Postdoctoral Years, 1914 — 1917.
World War I and Wiener’s Military Yearnings.
From Postulate Systems to the Brownian Motion and Potential Theory.
The Allotment of National Income, Marriage, and Wiener’s Academic Career.
From Communications Engineering to Generalized Harmonic Analysis and Tauberian Theory.
Max Born and Wiener’s Thoughts on Quantum Mechanics and Unified Field Theory.
The Collaboration with E. Hopf and R.E.A.C. Paley.
Birkhoff’s Theorem and the Consolidation of Wiener’s Ideas on Statistical Physics.
Lee, Bush, and Wiener’s Thoughts on Networks and Computers.
Bigelow and Anti-Aircraft Fire Control, 1940–1945.
Arturo Rosenblueth and Wiener’s Work in Physiology.
McCulloch, Pitts and the Evolution of Wiener’s Neurophysiological Ideas.
The Cybernetical Movement and von Neumann’s Letter, 1946.
Cybernetics.
The Second Industrial Revolution and its Educational, Economic and Social Challenges.
Wiener on Global Policy and Military Science; von Neumann’s Position; Science and Human Welfare.
Wiener’s Excursion into the Religious Domain.
Wiener’s Literary Predilections and Initiatives. His Concept of Art.
Wiener, the Man and the Teacher: Authenticity and Prejudice in his Attitudes and Writings.
Epilogue.