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I've made a start on this, and will be adding to it on a regular basis. I'm amazed that there hasn't already been anything on this book which is one of the most influential publications of the 20th century DaveApter ( talk) 09:03, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
The article currently attributes the development of cybernetics to N.Wiener who is without a doubt an important thinker and a prominent technical member of the community as a mathematician as he was in other fields. However he has not laid any foundations of the field as described in the article. 1948 for example is around the time when control and comms were almost matured as a technical field. We had Sputnik on 1957 in orbit, mind you. So the article maybe meant it philosophically in some sense. However, Claude Shannon's contributions on information theory laid more foundation in that sense anyways. In any case I think the claims should be straightened towards a watered down and more factual versions. The book is inspiring for sure indeed but not that much as advertised. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.249.187.103 ( talk) 11:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
The following has been edited out from the main cybernetics page, as its too detailed for there. But it might be interesting here:
"In the spring of 1947, Wiener was invited to a congress on harmonic analysis, held in Nancy organized by the Bourbaki and mathematician Szolem Mandelbrojt. During this stay in France, Wiener received the offer to write a manuscript on the unifying character of this part of applied mathematics. The following summer, back in the United States, Wiener decided to introduce the neologism cybernetics, coined to denote the study of "teleological mechanisms", into his scientific theory: it was popularized through his book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine."
Hinterlander1 ( talk) 08:56, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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I've made a start on this, and will be adding to it on a regular basis. I'm amazed that there hasn't already been anything on this book which is one of the most influential publications of the 20th century DaveApter ( talk) 09:03, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
The article currently attributes the development of cybernetics to N.Wiener who is without a doubt an important thinker and a prominent technical member of the community as a mathematician as he was in other fields. However he has not laid any foundations of the field as described in the article. 1948 for example is around the time when control and comms were almost matured as a technical field. We had Sputnik on 1957 in orbit, mind you. So the article maybe meant it philosophically in some sense. However, Claude Shannon's contributions on information theory laid more foundation in that sense anyways. In any case I think the claims should be straightened towards a watered down and more factual versions. The book is inspiring for sure indeed but not that much as advertised. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.249.187.103 ( talk) 11:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
The following has been edited out from the main cybernetics page, as its too detailed for there. But it might be interesting here:
"In the spring of 1947, Wiener was invited to a congress on harmonic analysis, held in Nancy organized by the Bourbaki and mathematician Szolem Mandelbrojt. During this stay in France, Wiener received the offer to write a manuscript on the unifying character of this part of applied mathematics. The following summer, back in the United States, Wiener decided to introduce the neologism cybernetics, coined to denote the study of "teleological mechanisms", into his scientific theory: it was popularized through his book Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine."
Hinterlander1 ( talk) 08:56, 24 April 2023 (UTC)