Cybernetics, Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine

WIENER, Norbert (1894-1964), ZORN, Max August (1906-1993)[Ex-Libris]

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 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), ZORN, Max August (1906-1993)[Ex-Libris]. 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. This copy is signed by German mathematician Max August Zorn and is from his library. An expert in alternative algebras, Zorn was appointed to a position at the University of Halle is 1933 but never took up the place - he fled to the US to escape the rise of Nazism, Zorn was a communist and found employment at Yale following his immigration to the US. In 1946 Zorn took a position at Indiana University, where he taught until his retirement in 1971.

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cybernetics, Or Control And Communication In The Animal And The Machine
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1948
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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