Invention : the care and feeding of ideas /
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| Author / Creator: | Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964 |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993. |
| Description: | xxi, 159 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1453907 |
| Summary: | Norbert Wiener was no ordinary mathematician. With the ability to understand how things worked or might work at a very deep level, he linked his own mathematics to engineering and provided basic ideas for the design of all sorts of inventions, from radar to communications networks to computers to artificial limbs. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 159 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0262231670 |
