Cybernetics, Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine
WIENER, Norbert (1894-1964)
Published by The Technology Press [John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hermann et CIE], New York, 1948
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?What does differentiate man from other animals in a way which leaves us not the slightest degree of doubt, is that he is a talking animal. The impulse to communicate with his fellow beings is so strong that not even the double deprivation of blindness and deafness can completely obliterate it?
WIENER, Norbert (1894-1964). Cybernetics, Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine. New York & Paris: The Technology Press [John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hermann et CIE] 1948. 1st US Edition. 8vo, 194pp. Original red cloth boards with black decoration and white lettering on the boards and spine. Missing original dust jacket. Near Fine. This copy is in excellent condition, the only blemish to the boards being small knocks on the corners and at the base of the spine. Internally the book is completely clean and the textblock is tight and square. There is a signature from a previous owner on the front free endpage and ephemera of some relevant newspaper cuttings tucked into the rear of the book.
A truly legendary book from the academic who pioneered the field of cybernetics and whose work on AI safety is still being consulted in this developing field to this day. Norbert Wiener was a mathematical and academic child prodigy, being admitted to Harvard aged just 14 to study Zoology. After graduating at 17 he travelled and studied across the world under many great academics including Bertrand Russell at Cambridge, before returning to the US and working on the mathematical theories of noise in electrical systems that would birth the field of cybernetics. Seller Inventory # ABE-1775843419707
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Title: Cybernetics, Or Control And Communication In...
Publisher: The Technology Press [John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hermann et CIE], New York
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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CYBERNETICS OR CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ANIMAL AND THE MACHINE.
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
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American first edition (not stated but with triple publisher imprint upon title page and single copyright date upon verso). 194 pages. Hardcover: H 23cm x L 15cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Rebound in more modern (1970s/1980s?) inelegant but functional and sturdy light blue buckram cloth (replacing the original red cloth boards) with gilt stamping to spine; gold foil bindery ticket for Denver Bookbinding Co. on rear pastedown; new pastedowns and endpapers with first original leaf being the title. Past owner's name/address stamp at front pastedown top left and again at front free endpaper recto top right; some brown staining (coffee splatter?) to pages 114-115 and 124-125 with a few other scattered spots; red pencil marks on pages 20-21; margin marks and underlining in regular pencil on pages 11, 19, 22, 23, 25-26, 126, 127, 133, 171, 173, 177-180, 185, 187-188, and 194 with other occurrences likely to be found upon a more careful perusal. Binding remains quite firm. Classic text regarding cybernetics by the founder of the field, Norbert Wiener, an American pure and applied mathematician who graduated at the age of 14 from Tufts College and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard by the age of 18. Weiner joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics Department in 1919 and taught there until his death in 1964. This American edition was preceded by a Paris imprint (albeit in English as well) of Hermann & Cie issued in the same year. The book's most recent edition (MIT Press, 2019) credits this original issue as "laying the theoretical foundations of information theory and influencing the development of error-correcting servomechanisms, autonomous navigation, analog computing, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience." Bibliographical reference: Diana H. Hook "Origins of Cyberspace" #991. Seller Inventory # CVA-00362