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Author |
: Norbert Wiener |
Publisher |
: Mit Press |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 1964-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262730081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262730082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ex-Prodigy by : Norbert Wiener
Author |
: Norbert Wiener |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 527 |
Release |
: 2018-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262347068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262347067 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Norbert Wiener#A Life in Cybernetics by : Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume. Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics—when it was taken up by scientists, engineers, science fiction writers, artists, and musicians—Ex-Prodigy (1953) and I Am a Mathematician (1956) received attention from both scholarly and mainstream publications, garnering reviews and publicity in outlets that ranged from the New York Times and New York Post to the Virginia Quarterly Review. Norbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In Ex-Prodigy, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.
Author |
: Norbert Wiener |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 1956 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015013153849 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Am a Mathematician, the Later Life of a Prodigy by : Norbert Wiener
Author |
: Eli Saslow |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2019-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525434955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052543495X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rising Out of Hatred by : Eli Saslow
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another. “The story of Derek Black is the human being at his gutsy, self-reflecting, revolutionary best, told by one of America’s best storytellers at his very best. Rising Out of Hatred proclaims if the successor to the white nationalist movement can forsake his ideological upbringing, can rebirth himself in antiracism, then we can too no matter the personal cost. This book is an inspiration.” —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show—already regarded as the "the leading light" of the burgeoning white nationalist movement. "We can infiltrate," Derek once told a crowd of white nationalists. "We can take the country back." Then he went to college. At New College of Florida, he continued to broadcast his radio show in secret each morning, living a double life until a classmate uncovered his identity and sent an email to the entire school. "Derek Black ... white supremacist, radio host ... New College student???" The ensuing uproar overtook one of the most liberal colleges in the country. Some students protested Derek's presence on campus, forcing him to reconcile for the first time with the ugliness of his beliefs. Other students found the courage to reach out to him, including an Orthodox Jew who invited Derek to attend weekly Shabbat dinners. It was because of those dinners—and the wide-ranging relationships formed at that table—that Derek started to question the science, history, and prejudices behind his worldview. As white nationalism infiltrated the political mainstream, Derek decided to confront the damage he had done. Rising Out of Hatred tells the story of how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the White House through the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe, at tremendous personal cost. With great empathy and narrative verve, Eli Saslow asks what Derek Black's story can tell us about America's increasingly divided nature.
Author |
: Marie Lu |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2011-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101545959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110154595X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legend by : Marie Lu
"Legend doesn't merely survive the hype, it deserves it." From the New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills.
Author |
: Flo Conway |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 2006-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0465013716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780465013715 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dark Hero of the Information Age by : Flo Conway
Two award-winning journalists reveal the epic story of one of the 20th century's most brilliant figures--the eccentric mathematical genius Norbert Wiener, who founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and then spent his life warning the world about its dangerous human consequences. photos.
Author |
: James Weldon Johnson |
Publisher |
: Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages |
: 135 |
Release |
: 2021-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man by : James Weldon Johnson
First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author |
: Ann Hulbert |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2019-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101971321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101971320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Off the Charts by : Ann Hulbert
Ann Hulbert’s in-depth exploration of the lives of sixteen extraordinary children over the course of the past century casts new light on America’s current obsession with early achievement. The figures she profiles include math genius Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics; two girls whose fiction and poetry stirred debate in the 1920s; the movie superstar Shirley Temple; the African-American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler; the chess champion Bobby Fischer; computer pioneers and “prodigious savants” with autism; and musical prodigies, present and past. Hulbert probes the changing roles of parents and teachers as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, whose stories so intriguingly raise hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it.
Author |
: Elizabeth Swados |
Publisher |
: The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2016-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781558619227 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1558619224 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Walking the Dog by : Elizabeth Swados
A “brilliant and layered” novel about a prodigy turned convict turned dog walker in her 40s from the celebrated author of My Depression: A Picture Book (Oprah.com). A former child prodigy and rich-girl, eighteen-year-old Ester is incarcerated after her kleptomania gets way out of hand. There, she is given the very gentile name Carleen (for her own protection) and for two decades, time is the enemy. When finally let loose onto the streets of New York, Carleen finds a job as a dog walker in Manhattan’s most elite neighborhoods. But despite her remarkable gift for canine communication, Carleen is determined to finally prove that she is a real person. To this end, she tries to reconnect with her estranged—and ferociously Orthodox—daughter. Amid the strained brunch dates, unsent letters, and the continuing trauma of prison, Carleen begins a slow and halting process of self-discovery. Strikingly funny and self-aware, this belated coming-of-age novel asks the question: How do you restart after crashing your first chance at life?
Author |
: Frank Brady |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 1989-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486259253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486259250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bobby Fischer by : Frank Brady
Revealing biography of the controversial chess champion, written by a chess player who knew Fischer since the latter was 11. It chronicles Fischer's tumultuous public and private lives, including an analysis of 90 games that trace his rise to supremacy plus a complete history of the1972 Fischer-Spassky match. 26 photographs.